I defragmented my hard drive earlier today, and thinking it would work as great as it did my first drive, I used it on my second. Unfortunately, defraggler decided that it needed to delete my bootmgr file on the second drive. This means the Bios can find it fine, but the OS (32bit Win Vista), can't.
I have tried to find a tool to get that file back on there, so far to no avail. I tried Paragon's System Rcovery - it freezes the screen. I left it trying to determine my HDD status for 1 hour.
I tried running system recovery, that only brought back a restore point which didn't fix the issue.
I tried a system backup/restore software... which was no help.
I have 2 solutions left which is to load up Ubuntu and hope it can see the drive and a second system recovery software which keeps a copy of bootmgr on it, in case of an error like this.
However the underlying problem is still here... Defraggler deleted my bootmgr file.
I did run one tool before Defraggler btw, but it was CCleaner. I already restored the registry though.
I really don't want to reformat - assuming I can even do that. Any other suggestions?
Defraggler 1.18
