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[Sigmeister]

So I have a Acer Aspire One D255-2331 netbook. When I bought it I didn't make recovery disk because I didn't have the external DVD drive. Later I decide I'll need them some day, so I order them from Acer. I repalce the hard drive with an SSD and use the machine for several years.Now I want to put the hard drive back in the Acer, and restore the unit to factory new. I buy the external DVD and think Im all set. I place the recovery disk in my new , working DVD drive and upon boot am told the bootmgr is missing. When the hard drive was out of the unit I used it as an external drive and the partitions were removed. I thought that the restore disk would repalce them and the OS. If I have to have the recovery partition, then what do the recovery disk do? How screwed am I ? Any ideas on what to do next would be greatly appreciated.   

[Sigmeister]

What good are these disk if I cant boot from them? When rebooting from them, all I get is the missing bootmgr message and hit control alt delete.

[Vince53]

There are a variety of YouTube videos telling how to fix your problem, but the first problem is :What version of Windows are you using?  Go to any search engine and type in How to fix bootmgr in Windows... Usually, you hve to correct a problem in the BIOS.

[Sigmeister]

I'm trying to get back to WIN XP. Should windows boot from the recovery disk? Mine will not. My hard drive does not have anything on it. I have it setup to boot from the cd in the BIOS. No joy here.

[Vince53]

Sigmeister, there are several possible causes and solutions. I can only find one easy solution: make sure that you do not have any CDs, DVDs, floppies, thumb drives, etc., attached, and try again. A more likely solution is that your laptop gave the re-installed hard drive a different letter than the one you were using, and your laptop is trying to locate the hard drive you have removed.

You might be better off going back to the hard drive that was working for you.

[Sigmeister]

Nothing else attached. The replacement hard drive is gone. So, using the original is the only option. How many disk are required to do a fresh install on a blank hard drive? I am now thinking I need a WIN XP boot disk and the two recovery disk to make this happen. Is there anything else?

[Sigmeister]

So, if I removed the disk and copied the files from the recovery disk to the hidden partition would that allow me to restore?