I have a pavillion 3300z It is giving me the fits.pulled harddrive and formatted
with vista based computer. First time around recovery disks were burned about 4 years ago. I observed it go through bios then cd rom spun up and PRESTO bootmgr is missing. Went to hp website and purchased recovery cd`s. reformatted drive and then started with fresh new cd`s presto bootmgr is missing. Tested harddrive through diagnostics in bios tested ok.
I have a xp laptop with a dead battery I plug power cord in when using it.I stuck in # 1 cd to read boot mgr. Laptop will run for a few seconds then shut down then I realize I need to plug it back in. When I turned it on cd rom spun up and I was loading files with boot manager. It appears the disk is ok. any ideas?