Boot Mgr missing

iiNick

iiNick

iiNick

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Hey Guys,

My mum has an Acer Aspire 5920, but it just randomly shut its self down. On reboot it was asking for Boot-manager, even though it has Vista on it. We bought a Windows 7 Disk for it of the MS website, hoping that we would just be able to format the disk and reinstall Windows 7 over the top of it, as that is what I did with my laptop when I had a similar issue, but this has had no effect. It won't work; it gets to Expanding Files, at 12% then locks up, and says that it can't find the file. I goggled the error code, and it said that it was because of either bad Media, or a bad DVD-ROM. So taking this advice, I wrote the Disk to an ISO, mounted it with Deamon tools, then used Disk Part to make a USB flash boot-able. Followed the instructions on a MS forum, however when I booted it up with the Flash, it copied the files over then said that it couldn't find any to expand.

Any help is appreciated,

Nick
 
Ubuntu DOES work, as a live disk. I was hoping that I could get the ISO onto the laptop then Mount it, but I need to do more research on the matter.
 
I personally didn't knacker anything. My sister is the one that Crashed the HDD in the first place. But I can access the Hard drive from Ubuntu.
 
I don't really want to Nuke the HDD because there is a lot of things on there that need keeping.

I know now that I can't mount it in Ubuntu, because it doesn't recognise the install file.

I need to try everything I can to get this working, if the HDD is busted, then so be it, but I want to give it everything I can first.
 
It's no use. The HDD Nuked its self. So I'm just going to try and recover it using XP. The only files on either of the partitions are the install temp files for W7.
 
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