No bootmgr Found?

raotor

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Hello,

While preparing for a dual boot installation of Windows 7 onto my existing
XP setup I've been also thinking ahead and checking out tutorials on how to
properly remove Windows 7 and have XP be the sole OS once more and boot
correctly and without prompting for which OS to load. In so doing I have
come across an article that specifically mentions "bootmgr". It seems to
infer that it is a setup file rather than a program but I'm not certain.
However, I cannot seem to locate such a file on my system. I have found
BOOT.INI and made a backup copy of it but no bootmgr file.

Have I missed something?


 
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BOOTMGR is a system partition on your hard drive. You can't access it from the Computer icon or command prompt directly, although Windows Disk Manager should show the partition to you.

Basically, if your hard drive is missing the partition, it won't boot up. But depending on how you install the OSs, they may have different partition needs -- for example, Windows 7 allows for the use of UEFI instead of Legacy BIOS (which uses a different type of partition), but Windows XP only uses Legacy BIOS.

spdragoo

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BOOTMGR is a system partition on your hard drive. You can't access it from the Computer icon or command prompt directly, although Windows Disk Manager should show the partition to you.

Basically, if your hard drive is missing the partition, it won't boot up. But depending on how you install the OSs, they may have different partition needs -- for example, Windows 7 allows for the use of UEFI instead of Legacy BIOS (which uses a different type of partition), but Windows XP only uses Legacy BIOS.
 
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