Missing bootmgr

Hi all. Need help. Just purchased from HP the recovery media for my netbook. (HP mini 311-1100). Popped the disck in followed the onscreen instructions and after a "sucessful recovery" i get a "bootmgr missing" error. Contacted HP and they were no help bevause my mini is out of warranty. Bad disc? Bad HD? Need Help bad. Running windows XP home. Completed the "recovery" 3 times with same result.
upset at HP

Greetings,
Fortunately, the hard disk tests have proven me wrong. With passing both long and short tests, there is only an approximate chance of it still being faulty a hard disk of around 5%. My next question is this, will it let you get into the recovery manager now that you have installed off the External DVD? On the HP Logo screen, press the Escape key. After that menu appears, press the F11 to enter recovery. If it hangs on a black screen, the installation disks did not install that partition properly; if it did, then you should be in business. Please keep us advised.
Good luck
Brent
Ps. I am currently checking to see if all of your USB ports are 2.0 capable. There is a (slight) possibility that you are plugging into a USB 1.0 or a 3.0 (without the proper drivers) port that could be causing this error as well.
Good Luck
Brent
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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01973791
Alternatively you can also refer to the following MS link which might help you resolve the issue:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/windows-7-bootmgr-is-missing-resol...
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