Afternoon all,
My first generation Acer netbook has decided to stop booting Windows; BIOS is fine and I can run Ubuntu from a CD, but the HDD doesn't show up in file manager. Completely stripped down the unit to access HDD :-((. Stuck it in a caddy and connecting it to another PC the size of the drive is reported OK, but the whole disk is categorised as 'unallocated'.
Anything worth trying before a complete Windows re-install? There's nothing important on the HDD, a few GB of music and video I could do without ripping again, but that's about it.
TIA for any ideas.
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I'm in a similar (but slightly different) boat. Ubuntu runs fine. I ran the disk utility from the disk manufacturer, which reported no errors. But windows 7 will not install.
I think that something corrupts the master boot record, but I never got to the bottom of it.
After wasting a couple of days, I've left it running Ubuntu. I'll watch this thread for ideas!
Last edited by: Tigger on Sun 3 Jun 12 at 16:51
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>> TIA for any ideas.
MBR is hosed, might be a disk hardware failure. New windows in tall should fix it if its not, you may need to run fixmbr before windows will reinstall.
Last edited by: VxFan on Sun 3 Jun 12 at 18:33
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mmm, thanks, figured fixmbr might well be the tool, never tried it on a disc other than C: but doubtless Google will be my friend.
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Acer netbook won't boot Windows - Tigger
