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    ACER Aspire 5002Wlmi MBR needed

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by ndunross, Aug 22, 2006.

  1. ndunross

    ndunross Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi!
    I have an Acer Aspire 5002 Wlmi laptop. I have ACER backups, ghost backups. The problem is, I installed SUSE for a project a while back and it overwrote the Master Boot records. So now the ACER partition won't boot. I cannot restore from the ACER partition. Also the ACER ercovery software has stopped working. I get partition error or something like that. I was wondering if someone could copy the Master BOOt reocords and upload them? I would be most grateful. There is nothing illegal about this. Not copying the software. Just the mast boot records so that I can boot from the acer parition.
    Thank you.
    Ian Dunross
    Ps my email is [email protected]
    PPS Love my laptop. It's great, absolutely gorgeous screen, great wireless.
    The only other thing I need is a laptop backpack. The Wenger Maxxumus didn't fit. I am waiting for the new Wenger Pegasus to be sold at bestbuy.
     
    ndunross, Aug 22, 2006
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    vestige Notebook Consultant

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    Did you get any recovery CD's? Did you make any?...the first thing that should have popped up when you went into Windows was eRecovery asking you to burn recovery CDs/DVDs.
     
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    ndunross Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes I do have the recovery DVD. Do does restore the MBR as well? I guess I have been using Ghost DVD to restore and that does not restore the MBR.
     
    ndunross, Aug 23, 2006
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    vestige Notebook Consultant

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    Did the SUSE install erase the whole disk or did you manually edit the partition table?

    If you have the recovery discs, they will restore windows onto the C: partition. I do not believe it will restore the recovery partition if you erased it from your hard drive.

    Just to try. If you still have the recovery partition. Set up the hard drive like this:
    PQSERVICE Partition (Recovery Partition)
    C:
    D:

    Label C: as ACER and make its file system FAT32
    Label D: as ACERDATA and make its file system FAT32

    DO NOT TOUCH THE RECOVERY PARTITION.

    Once you have done this. Restart your computer and press ALT-F10 to load the recovery manager. Check to make sure Disk-To-Disk Recovery is enabled in your BIOS first.
     
    vestige, Aug 23, 2006
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