Installed a second OS and made unoperational

[getusama]

Hi

I have got an Acer 7720G laptop which comes preinstalled with vista.

I haved made a seperate partition and installed "Open Suse" (linux).

Each time I started my laptop it would give me an option from which I could choose which OS I wanted to use.

I wated to get rid of Open Suse and so I removed that partition.

But each time when I started my laptop that OS selector menu would still come.

So, I have then delted all my partitions and created new ones.

When I have installed the "Recovery - Factory Default" to bring back the laptop to its original state - it did install windows but now I cannot boot my laptop any more because it still tries to bring up the OS selector menu (but fails).

I think here might be a prob lem with the Acer "Recovery partition" which I didnt dare to touch.

Please would someone enlighted me and help me to run my laptop.

Regards

[MANEMAN]

Hi

I have got an Acer 7720G laptop which comes preinstalled with vista.

I haved made a seperate partition and installed "Open Suse" (linux).

Each time I started my laptop it would give me an option from which I could choose which OS I wanted to use.

I wated to get rid of Open Suse and so I removed that partition.

But each time when I started my laptop that OS selector menu would still come.

So, I have then delted all my partitions and created new ones.

When I have installed the "Recovery - Factory Default" to bring back the laptop to its original state - it did install windows but now I cannot boot my laptop any more because it still tries to bring up the OS selector menu (but fails).

I think here might be a prob lem with the Acer "Recovery partition" which I didnt dare to touch.

Please would someone enlighted me and help me to run my laptop.

Regards

Hi there,and Welcome.

Many people manage to damage the Master Boot Record (MBR) when Dual Booting, - so you are not alone there !

If you have not already made a Vista Recovery/Repair Disk, the details for download of ISO to make one is **Here**

You will find this disk will allow you to repair the MBR very quickly.

The more worrying thing however is that you have said:

I think there might be a problem with the Acer "Recovery partition" which I didnt dare to touch.

And in a previous paragraph:

So, I have then deleted all my partitions and created new ones.

If you have deleted all partitions, your recovery partition will most probably be amongst those deleted and you will no longer have a Vista Operating System available to you, in which case you will have to purchase a new operating system.

Have you deleted partitions or just deleted data on the present partitions ?

Download, burn, and try the "Recovery Disk" first, and then come back and let us know how you are getting on.