Spec me linux distro for Asus 1005HA netbook

[psd99]

I got a netbook eee 1005HA and windows has gone kaput
because I've got dual boot of backtrack the grub has messed up my partition and I can't restore to factory defaults

so I need a linux disto that is known to work (drivers worries me) for my asus netbook

any linux distros any of you can recommend?

 

[psd99]

There seems to be quite a lot of eee users on the crunchbang forums so I'd assume your netbook is well supported by pretty much most debian based distros, Crunchbang Statler + OpenBox is light as heck and is perfect for a netbook.


Oh, and grub won't have cocked up any of your partitions as its only a bootloader, it's you that messed the partitioning up when you repartitioned for backtrack!

mmm how did you know?

the scope of my problem is THIS:

I just can't hit F9 to restore because of the way my drive is now partitioned

do any of you linux folk have any ideas?

if I fixed my MBR with recovery console
do u think I could restore the laptop to how it was when it left factory?

will check out all the distros thanks

 

[psd99]

thanks but will it matter that efi partition is now at the back of my drive not at the beginning?

I am going to give this a shot will see how it goes

 

[psd99]

It's recommended that an efi partition should be at the front of the disc, although its not a requirement

okay thanks

will try fixmbr
if i can get my windows disk some how on to my usb disk
i dont have a disk drive u see on the netbook

 

[psd99]

You could grab a copy of windows 7 off the web and set it up for usb install and just use the recovery console from there I guess!

thanks I still got my win 7 disk

will see if I can create iso