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Hi everyone, I've just upgraded my laptop's hard drive, and managed to make a right mess of things. This has me quite stumped. My laptop is a dell, and the factory install has 3 partitions: DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 OEM 39 MB 31 KB Partition 2 Primary 12 GB 40 MB Partition 3 Primary 919 GB 12 GB Partition 1 contains a DOS installation and a few utilities. Partition 2 contains system recovery software, and the boot manager. Partition 3 contains the system. When I make Partition 2 the active partition, the OS drive becomes D:, and my system wont boot. So I installed the PBR on partition 3, and made it active. It comes up the with bootmgr is missing error, so I know it's working, but when I copy bootmgr and all the c:\boot information to that drive, the boot manager will not load, and just comes up with a blinking cursor (no error message) I have managed to boot my system by making partition 2 the active partition, and connecting a drive with a working boot manager to my laptop's eSATA port, and booting the c: partition. I have run startup recover many times already, to no avail. Any ideas? In particular why would bootmgr be failing to load? Or is there another way I could boot my system from the laptop's own hard drive?