

For most Windows PCs you will press a combination of F2, F9, F10, DEL, Esc. The process of getting to this menu will be dependent on your model of computer. Go to the boot options menu as soon as your computer starts. It will take a hard drive data recovery professional to recover any important data from the drive. The hard drive may be failing (like our client here), in which case you won’t be able to read any data from the drive. If none of these solutions work, remove the hard drive and try to read data from it by hooking it up to another computer. If you feel this could be causing your problem the following BOOTMGR walkthrough may be helpful.

There are a number of scenarios where the operating system boots to USB flash drives / external hard drives. If you have encountered a scenario like this your computer may be showing the error message: ‘bootmgr image is corrupted the system cannot boot’. Our customer in this data recovery case came to us with a hard disk drive that had failed and was showing a BOOTMGR Image Error
