Aspire One - D250 - Need copy of original boot sector please.

Dano · 18 Feb 2010 at 10:45

Has anybody got an Acer Aspire One D250 (possibly any will work) that they can grab the boot sector from and send me a copy please?

Thanks

bees · 18 Feb 2010 at 16:52

what happen with your original hdd?

Dano · 18 Feb 2010 at 17:14

Not mine, the owner installed Grub loader on it and want's it back to factory state, which the recovery partition fails to fix and running /fixmbr will lose access (although I'm not positive as it can be acessed via windows) to the recovery partition.

Dano · 28 Feb 2010 at 09:51

Still looking if anybody can spare the time to send me a copy

scrlk · 28 Feb 2010 at 17:04

Can't you use GParted to nuke the whole HDD (par the recovery partition)? I've done that before then used fixmbr.

EDIT:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-24113.html

Dano · 28 Feb 2010 at 22:35

Still wouldn't give back access to the recovery options on boot up, only the original boot sector or some sort of editing is going to do that.

I could just run fixmbr now as it's already lost access, what I want is the original boot sector with the option to launch the system recovery from the drive.

I don't want to restore GRUB, I want it gone.

kkelly · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:39

low level format the disc?

Dano · 28 Feb 2010 at 23:44

Which would destroy the recovery partition, which I do not want.

I just need a copy of the original boot sector.

scrlk · 1 Mar 2010 at 17:11

Dano said:
Still wouldn't give back access to the recovery options on boot up, only the original boot sector or some sort of editing is going to do that.

I could just run fixmbr now as it's already lost access, what I want is the original boot sector with the option to launch the system recovery from the drive.

I don't want to restore GRUB, I want it gone.

You want to restore GRUB and try to remove it properly - anything else will kill the MBR. (I've made that mistake so many times)

Dano · 1 Mar 2010 at 17:23

Grub is still on it, have not attempted to remove it yet for precisely that reason, eitehr way I am still in need of a copy of the original boot sector unless Grub automatically backs this up before over writing?

Very disappointed in Acer's recovery options on the thing too, a full factory recovery doesn't touch it.