Aspire AS9303WSMi D2D Recovery: Can't activate tool using Alt+F10

Hi guys, I'm a newbie here on this forum. Greets.

I got a small problem with my laptop. I bought it recently and found that it worked simply too slowly with Vista, so I decided to re-format and install Windows XP. This made it run much faster, however I day after I received it I found the price had dropped by £50! So I decided to return it to get the money since they won't just refund me the difference.

I tried to use the D2D Recovery tool, but when I enable it in BIOS, the Alt+F10 invoke key-combo does not work. I am beginning to realise this could be because I have re-formatted and erased the original master boot record. I have tried to use Norton Ghost to get it back but no luck.

Can anybody help me, or offer me an alternative solution?

 

There are ways to get the MBR back but in all my attempts it causes a lot of errors, sometimes it doesn't launch the setup programs after you boot into Windows after recovery and post-recovery file copying stalls, etc. It involves extracting the RTMBR.bin file from the PQSERVICE partition and patching it to your current MBR.

The best way I would recommend would be to see if anyone around here could make you a copy of the MBR and you could restore it using that and you would regain the ALT-F10 functionality.

 

if partion is they you can use cdrom to set that partion active then it will reboot into recovery program and you be able burn set recovery disk or do the disk to disk recovery