Question : BOOTMGR is missing...

I have recently purchased a SSD hard disk. I first set my BIOS to AHCI and then proceeded to install Windows 7 64-bit.

The drive performs fantastically, it is lightning fast.

BUT, if I switch the computer off and then on again the SSD is not being detected by the BIOS and I am given a message stating that no boot drive could be found. When I go into the BIOS you can see that the DVD-RW has been detected, but the SSD is nowhere to be seen.

If I switch the computer off at the mains and wait a few minutes, and then switch it back on again the BIOS detects the SSD and Windows start up perfectly.

Sometimes I get the more alarming message "BOOTMGR is missing". When this happens a cold boot is not the cure... Instead I have to switch from AHCI back to IDE and then it will boot into Windows again. I then restart the computer and switch it straight back to AHCI and it works fine again (until the next time).

The same problem also occurs when Windows goes into sleep mode (though sometimes Windows does actually recover from sleep mode).

I have a Corsair Reactor 60GB.

Answer : BOOTMGR is missing...

The first thing I would do, is go to your motherboard manufacture and make sure you have the most current BIOS running.  If not flash your BIOS, and while you are on their site, look around and see if they have a forum or FAQ where you may find specific info about your board, and weather or not SSD are supported.

I have seen a lot of this lately, people are really wanting to experience the lightning fast speeds, that are provided by a SSD, but you have to remember that SSDs have not been on the market that long, and they do communicate differently with your MB than spinning drives did with their controllers.

A few co-workers have experience similar problems, however once they updated their systems the problems did start to go away.  One individual however, had numerous SSDs go bad on him.  I can't remember which manufacture he was preaching but, he ended up going with 10K raptor drives instead.

Hope this helps.

TLH
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