Installed a second OS and made unoperational

Hi

I have got an Acer 7720G laptop which comes preinstalled with vista.

I haved made a seperate partition and installed "Open Suse" (linux).

Each time I started my laptop it would give me an option from which I could choose which OS I wanted to use.

I wated to get rid of Open Suse and so I removed that partition.
But each time when I started my laptop that OS selector menu would still come.
So, I have then delted all my partitions and created new ones.
When I have installed the "Recovery - Factory Default" to bring back the laptop to its original state - it did install windows but now I cannot boot my laptop any more because it still tries to bring up the OS selector menu (but fails).

I think here might be a prob lem with the Acer "Recovery partition" which I didnt dare to touch.

Please would someone enlighted me and help me to run my laptop.


Regards

 

Installing the second OS did not make it un-operational, it was the deleting you did afterwards. The "os selector" is the mbr. More than likely the linux distro installed grub. You can either edit grub to work with your windows install, or replace it with the original one.

I won't go into editing grup. As far as I know this should work with Vista/7, but what do I know i use neither.

Boot from the windows XP CD, press the "R" key in the setup in order to start the restoration console. Select your windows XP installation from the list, and enter the administrator password.
Enter the command: "FIXMBR" (without the quotes) at the input prompt and confirm the next question with a "Y" (without the quotes). Use exit to restore the computer.

 

I think Poster needs the Vista Version.
But I bother to remember just "/?" or "help" will bring up all commands.

 

Hostcat - you are absolutely right.

I have recovered it (using the recovery disc) a several times but once the recovery is finished it does not boot up.

I think it might be a boot file in the acer recovery partition which linux has changed. The recovery disc does not modify that boot file but only constructs drice c.

i have chekc the system file type of that recovery system but its not recognized by any of the software that i've used.

if only i could locate and edit this boot file to point it to drive c; i think would do the trick.

please let me know if you knoe of a safe software to play with these boot options and files from different partitions.

And YES it was grub. I dont know how to work with it tho . Now that you have mentioned mbr I defnitely want to try that out (hope i dont mess things up). As weinter pointed out I have got vista so I googled to find out what i have to do for it and found the below link:
http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/fix-mbr-xp-vista/

 

Let me thank both of you for the reply