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Windows 7 BOOTMGR image is corrupt

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cihanbozkus

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Hi,

I have a laptop (Toshiba Satellite L505-S5988). I bought it 3 months ago and Windows 7 was already installed in it (this is something they do at Bestbuy)

Yesterday, when I was using it, it turned off itself suddenly. I tried to turn it on, it worked for 20 minutes, then it turned itself off again. I tried to turn it on again but I got a black screen saying "BOOTMGR image is corrupt. The system cannot boot." I turned it off and on a few times and last time I got the same message but a few seconds later another message poped up, saying computer cannot boot and needs to make some system recovery. I did it and it worked OK after that. I guess it reset something back in time, like deleting the recent installs.

Today, same thing happened. When I was using it, it turned itself off. I tried to turn it on but I got the message. I tried to turn it on quite a few times but no success, same message. But system recovery did not start by itself this time.

I don't have a installation cd for Windows 7, never got one from Bestbuy, There they had told me to create recovery discs. I got one Windows recovery Environment, one recovery process and 3 recovery dvds.

I tried to set cd/dvd as main boot and inserted those dvds, it did not work.

can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!
 
Sounds like you have a motherboard or HDD going bad on you.
 
This is kind of a tough one. I'm inclined to believe you have a bad hard drive, bad RAM, bad power supply (not sure how this works on laptops), or a virus.
 
Keep pressing F8 after BIOS screen, if a menu appears select "Last Know Good..."
Also try Safe Mode (Services Restore - something like this don't remember :p)

If it shows the same error you can still try to do a CheckDisk (dont ask me how because i don't know since you don't have the OS DVD)

The other solution is to install a new Windows.
 
Normally means it can't find the harddrive, check to see if its set to boot from the right HDD ( its not in boot order by the way, its elsewhere depends on bios so I can't be more helpful then that)
 
Toshiba Satellite L505-S5988 known to over heat and shut down....
with out windows saving
last setting when shuting down
 
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