Desktops & All-In-Ones

[goodguy6]

I suspect my Acre Aspire X1301 Windows 7 Home Premium PC has been disabled by a virus or trojan.  I deleted the Drive C: partition by placing the drive into another computer, so it now only has the recovery partition and a reserved area.

I previously created the Recovery Disks, but the system will not load them from the DVD drive when I select DVD as the first boot option.

So how can I restore the recovery partition to this PC?  Can I, for example, copy the restore partition files to a thumb drive and reinstall from there?  Or what?  Thanks for your thoughts!

[Aspire_Z3771]

Do you have another option to boot from DVD further down on the menu after pressing F12?

If yes, use that one instead of the top DVD option.

I had the same problem re-installing from the recovery discs after I accidently deleted the boot partition of my hard-disk.  This worked for me as the top option was for UEFI drives which mine isn't, nor I suspect is yours.

Hope this helps.

[goodguy6]

Unfortunately, even if I choose the DVD option, which doesn't appear all the time, the system still doesn't boot.  It says Port 01: failure, etc.  I think the SATA controller has died.  I can't figure out whether it's handled by the CPU, or is on another chip on the motherboard.

Doesn't look good for this machine.

[Aspire_Z3771]

Ah. Can't help you there mate, sorry.

Last time I had a SATA HD and it went west I ended up ditching the whole job and buying a new machine.