I have a windows vista home premium laptop, an Acer aspire 5100. Long story short, I tried to change my password and windows explorer stopped responding briefly while changing the password. now my old password doesn’t work and what I was changing it to doesn’t work either. short of buying expensive software, the only option I had was to reinstall windows. The directions for the recovery discs (3 total. 1 “system” and two “recovery” discs) say to insert the system disc, reboot, and hit F12 when the splash screen comes up. Nothing happened when I hit f12. I have already used these discs not even 2 months ago and they worked like a charm then.
I formatted the hard drive and tried it then and when i hit f12 at the splash screen i get a message that says that the bootmgr is missing. I can’t even make it boot from disc by changing the boot order in the BIOS.
why is it saying that I’m missing the boot manager?
