I just bought an Acer Extensa 4420. It came with Vista pre-installed and I spent many hours configuring and installing programs, etc. that I needed. Once I was satisfied I amde a Terabyte image of the Vista partition and stored it safely away. Then I tried to install Ubuntu as dual-boot, and things got fouled up. I've repartitioned the drive, etc. but now the original image I made won't work (gives a winload.exe error). I suspect the image is looking for the bcd in the wrong place due to partitioning.
I have no problem wiping the drive and setting it up from scratch (re-partitioning using PartitionMagic), but in order to use the image I need the original partition data for an Extensa 4420:
1) How the 120GB drive is partitioned (size, label).
2) How each partition is formatted.
3) Any "hidden" or unallocated partitions that may be on the drive. I seem to recall a 10GB (?) partition at the beginning of the drive that did not contain an O/S.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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once again,,,,,,,, did you burn the recovery dvd's ?
here's a screen shot of my disk manager just haven't got round to converting to NTFS oops.Attached Files:
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Need original partition info for Extensa 4420
Discussion in 'Acer' started by jjohnstn, Sep 24, 2008.