Win7 Goot?

So, after a while of not wanting to go from Win XP to Win 7 I decided i'll do it as I recieved my new (SATA finally) HDD. I have backed up all my stuff and prepared all the stuff thats needed beforehand.

So, i got an Original Win7 DVD from a friend and I thought to myself: "Ok, this is going to be quick and easy."

^^ That must have jinxed it.....

I pop the DVD in and start getting excited as the windows bar loaded, saw the new logo for the first time. It asks me which language do I want and i press Next. I select the costum install, create 2 partitions, and select the partition on which I wanted to install Win7 and press Next.
Windows is copying files. Competed. Doing Goot. Windows is extracting the files (0%) but the moving dots still got me hoping. KABLAM. Some shit ass problem (oxc00000e9 :me thinks:) that interupts the install. I'm thinking, ok, it's Windows I'm dealing with here so maybe a try or two more are needed. I restart, wait for "Pres any key to boot from CD/DVD..." Nothing, all of the sudden: BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart.

So while trying to boot 100x and swithing to Ubuntu (which even when it failed to start the installer gave me the option to search the internets for a solution to my problem.

After changing my BIOS setting all over, trying to install with 3 different Win7 DVDs, using 2 (working) DVD drives, 2 Sata cables, all sata ports, manual repair (in Win7 "installer crap"), /fixboot for BOOTMGR /rebuildbcd and shitloads of other stuff that I read might help. Still nothing.

So, have you, the standard CF geek, spend-all-my-money-on-a-pc-with-a-light-in-it, performance pro and problem solving guru, ever had the same troubles installing (most of the answers i got concerning BOOTMGR was for fixing it WHEN WIN7 IS ALREADY INSTALLED) or just simply know the solution cause you are fucking brilliant?

I will not post a random girl, pic, gif or a song cause I have been fucking raging all day and I just cba.

Thanks in advance.

Yours truly, founding member of #ALMIGHTY.ET, Slovenian NC Captain, lowskilled backraper and mine guru, m1ke.


tl;dr version: Can't install Win7 cause of "BOOTMGR is missing"

E: The only thing that comes to my mind is updating BIOS, but ill get to that tomorrow, or after I smoked some AK-48 / Grapefruit SkAnk.
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seems bill gates trolled you hard
Bootmgr is missing appears because it is trying to boot the HD instead of the DVD. Use the one-time Boot Menu key, or make sure DVD is set to boot first in BIOS setup.

While in BIOS, make sure HD is showing and controller is set to AHCI first, then IDE if necessary.
first Serial ATA? Welcome to 21st Century mike mate
Thanks, I was so excited untill this happened :<
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i once fucked my boot manager up big time, after a day of messing with it, i fixed it with a seemingly random repair disk, ill send you a download link in pm.

not the exact same problem but it might fix something :)
Status: (0Xc00000e9) is a hardware error pertaining to your computer's BIOS. Basically
it is telling you that the computer is not able to reliably communicate with the hard drive.
You may try startup repair. Startup Repair is designed to prevent a time-consuming reinstallation by diagnosing and repairing problems that prevent Windows from booting. Introduced in Windows Vista, Startup Repair is even easier to use because Windows 7 now installs it on your hard drive for you.
It doesn't.
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dunno then, took that from microsofts website
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I did bootrec.exe /fixboot and that should have fixed the prob. But I think that problem happens to after someone installed Win7, I didn't even install anything cause it fails.
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startup repair / bootrec look for already installed windows directories you haven't finished the install so it's not the answer
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never had any problem with illegal windows

:D
delete the partitions and reformat the disk from the installer?
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