Hey, sorry for the late reply, all is now fixed, vista is now installed. Turns out having the floppy controller enabled in BIOS was causing the problem, turned off and it booted fine. thanks for your help, Matt.
i did yeah, but the keyboard fails at this point and everything hangs on the screen. with the message
VERIFYING DMI pool data..........
Press any key to boot fro, CD or DVD..............
BOOTMGR is missing
pres ctrl+alt+del to restart
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the DVD drive is definetely the first priority, followed by the HDD which i bought yesterday. the DVD drive makes a noise as if to start spinning which is followed by:
VERIFYING DMI pool data..........
Press any key to boot fro, CD or DVD..............
BOOTMGR is missing
pres ctrl+alt+del to...
Hey,
i'm having trouble trying to repair my copy of windows vista. my hardrive is new and everytime i boot from the vista CD (with the HD connected) it goes to:
i tried installing a fresh copy of windows of my machine and recieved an error, so it says:
BOOTMGR IS MISSING
press CTRL-ALT-DEL to...