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    problems with booting Windows after recovery

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by tomasz_kleczek, Jun 6, 2007.

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    tomasz_kleczek Newbie

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    Hi

    Recently I have messed up with my computer a bit (Acer Aspire 5612) and ended up with problems with booting my Windows. Regrettably I haven't been aware of importance of a Recovery partition (and simulatneously i was misled by an answer i had received from Acer Technical Support) Anyway i've decided to erase my disk, and then to recover the system. (first doing some paritition changes). However the recovery DVDs seemed no to work properly

    After reading some topic on this forum it became pretty clear that repartitioning the disk (so that the disk would look more or less the same as the orginal one) might help. And actually it did, but then another problem arose. Although the process of recovery proceeded without any errors, my system wasn't able to boot.

    Once more I tried to find an answer on the forum and I chanced upon an topic in which the damaged MBR was blamed for such behaviour. It was explained that using MBRWRDOS program, which is to be found on Recovery DVD, in combination with rtmbr.bin file would fix the problem

    Unfortunatelly I couldnot find these files in folder ACER\TOOLS\

    Could anyone provide me with this stuff and are they model independent? Or maybe you see the problem elsewhere than in the condition of MBR?

    Thanks in advance