I didn't see the option for optical device. In the setup utility I navigated to Boot Options and accessed my boot order. The fourth one down was F10 BIOS Setup, this is what I chose to enter the BIOS (hope this is correct). I entered BIOS by pressing Esc as soon as the Notebook started up, this took me to the Startup Menu where I was given a couple of optoins. Any other suggestions? I don't understand where my operating system went. Since I received that message I stopped here. The system cannot find the file specified.
BOOTREC CANNOT FIND THE FILE SPECIFIED WINDOWS
Since I was not able to type "Yes" because I was never presented with the installation path of a Windows directory as the instructions stated, I did the next step to remove the BCD store and recreate it, below are my results: Total identified Windows installations: 0 Successfully scanned Windows installations. Please wait, since this may take a while. Scanning all disks for Windows installations.
This allows me to perform solution 2 but it still didn't work, maybe because I wasn't able to select an operating system? Here are the steps I did and the results I received from solution #2 (everything after bootrec /rebuildbcd I can however bypass that to get to command prompt by just clicking next and not selecting an operting system. I tried the method(s) through the link you provided germ-x and both solutions didn't work because I didn't have a operating system to select. Processor Type - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 2.40GHz
BOOTREC CANNOT FIND THE FILE SPECIFIED PC
Notebook Model - HP Pavillion dv7 Notebook PC Below is some system information you may need, anything else please let me know. I am very patient but this is getting to be a real pain and has wasted so much of my time so I would greatly appreciate any help. I have also made a Windows Vista 圆4 Recovery disk and have been using that to attempt to fix these issues. Press ctrl, alt, delete to restart," then from trying to fix that I discovered my operating system was missing! So I'll attempt to fix the latter of the issues first since I cannot really accomplish anything without having an operating system. My problem actually started off with "the blue screen of death." From there I began to get "Bootmngr is missing. I am trying to avoid reinstalling because I do not want to loose any of my files as some are very important. I have been having a problem with my computer for three days now.