Boot Mgr missing

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
 
I'm suspecting a mobo fault on the laptop. But to be sure try a live linux CD/DVD. If it won't boot from that then it is a hardware fault.
 
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 never suggested anyone was to blame. HDDs are quite happy to break all by themselves now and then.

EDIT: If Ubuntu can see it, then all hope may not be lost. Though I would strongly urge you backup any data from it - as a failing HDD may still be readable but still be broken!

Dodgy Windows 7 media is a common issue. If possible you could copy the disc and try and install from the copy. Failing that, try an external DVD drive.
 
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iiNick said:
But if I can see it from Ubuntu, then doesn't that mean that it does still work?
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Nope. Not necessarily.

I had a HDD that I could not boot from at all. Got my data off it using a Linux Live distro. After a couple of days of trying to format/repair the HDD refused to work, even Linux wouldn't read it anymore.
 
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.
 
Ubuntu will be able to read it if you're able to patch the existing install etc. You can use Ubuntu to read the smart data.
 
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