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Laptop won't boot - "bootmgr image is corrupt the system boot cannot be found"

  • 21-08-2018 07:09PM
    #1
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Lenovo x240 - giving the error: bootmgr image is corrupt the system boot cannot be found - on boot and wont go any futher.

    Sounds like the harddrivee could be toast, but is this something I can recover from? Could I get data off the hard drive if I took it out and plugged it into my pc? Or does this need data recovery?

    I've tried booting to a live usb - gets to the windows logo but wont go any further. Tried a windows iso - it does work but some steps that should take a seconds take forever. I got to the "Repair" tab - clicking next took 30 mins before it showed up. I clicked the Startup Repair and its been running for 2 hours on 'Attempting repairs'.

    Any other ideas?


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  • #2
    stevek93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,097 ✭✭✭stevek93


    Zascar wrote: »
    Lenovo x240 - giving the error: bootmgr image is corrupt the system boot cannot be found - on boot and wont go any futher.

    Sounds like the harddrivee could be toast, but is this something I can recover from? Could I get data off the hard drive if I took it out and plugged it into my pc? Or does this need data recovery?

    I've tried booting to a live usb - gets to the windows logo but wont go any further. Tried a windows iso - it does work but some steps that should take a seconds take forever. I got to the "Repair" tab - clicking next took 30 mins before it showed up. I clicked the Startup Repair and its been running for 2 hours on 'Attempting repairs'.

    Any other ideas?

    Is it a SSD or HDD? If you can plug it into your PC and copy what files you can run a chkdsk if it comes back with errors you need a new disk. It sounds like bootable USB is trying to write files to the local disk and is unable to do so.


  • #3
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    Have you tried a live ubuntu usb?

    You can also try to fixmbr using that.

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootSectorFix


  • #4
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,114 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    Zascar wrote: »
    Lenovo x240 - giving the error: bootmgr image is corrupt the system boot cannot be found - on boot and wont go any futher.

    Sounds like the harddrivee could be toast, but is this something I can recover from? Could I get data off the hard drive if I took it out and plugged it into my pc? Or does this need data recovery?

    I've tried booting to a live usb - gets to the windows logo but wont go any further. Tried a windows iso - it does work but some steps that should take a seconds take forever. I got to the "Repair" tab - clicking next took 30 mins before it showed up. I clicked the Startup Repair and its been running for 2 hours on 'Attempting repairs'.

    Any other ideas?

    Your drive is being seen by the startup sequence. But the bootmgr cant be found. Id suggest you 1st get any data you want off it by having it mounted as an external drive on another machine. Once you get the data off, youll feel easier about rewriting boot manager or whatever.


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