After I get my disk I'll try to repair it but if that doesn't work I won't have a whole lot of options left. My Windows 7 disk is on it's way back into my possession because I let a friend borrow it to do a reformat (No one can seem to keep hold of their disks). Doesn't make it to any point where it tries to load Windows from what I can tell. The only screen you get is the Dell screen and after the progress bar makes it's way across the screen you are then greeted with the black screen reading 'BOOTMGR image corrupt'.

The sticker was underneath the battery.ĮDIT: Bear with me guys I''m not thinking too clearly right now. Just the same old 'BOOTMGR image is corrupt' message. Ideas?Ĭlick to expand.I hit it until laptop started beeping and it still didn't give me any options. A few others have gotten progress by changing the SATA setting in bios from AHCI to ATA but also reinstalled Windows and that would be hard to accomplish without a disk. I ran across a few threads online and it seems it could be either a corrupt hard drive or a failing hard drive. I ran a few others that would actually work and they tested the memory and CPU from what I could tell they all passed. Press any key to abort!' when I try to test the system. I also ran the built 'diagnostics' from boot and it gives an error 'Exception occured in module delldiag.exe. Since this is a Dell they usually include a recovery partition, is there anyway to use that partition to repair Windows? If not, can I use a retail Windows 7 disk to repair the installation? I just don't want his copy of Windows to become unregistered because not only do I not have his key but I doubt it would work with a retail copy of Windows anyway. Normally I'd figure ok, lets try a repair but he doesn't have a recovery CD.

When booting is comes to a screen that says 'BOOTMGR image is corrupt. So a buddy of mine was having problems with his laptop and I told him I'd take a look at it.

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