MBR repair on Acer 5750 laptop running Windows 7 - is it possible?

kocherpm9044

Hi all, 

 

I'm an Acer board newbie, but have years of PC experience :-)   Not that it's helped me on this issue...

 

I managed to overwrite the Acer provided MBR record on partition 1 yesterday during use of a Porteus (portable Linux) USB disk MBR writing tool.  Oops.  System still boots to Windows 7 luckily but I cannot use Alt F10 keystroke to launch the eRecovery software.  I tried using a boot loader to force a boot from the recovery partition, and it attempts to boot Porteus instead of the Acer eRecovery tool. The current partition layout was not changed and is:

 

1 PQSERVICE recovery partition (intact with corrupt MBR)

2 Windows 7 system reserved

3 Windows 7

 

I read articles online about using an EXE file to rewrite the recovery partition boot sector, using MBRWDOS.EXE. I can view the PQSERVICE partition contents if I boot in Windows 7 recovery mode (F8) but I have not found anything useful on the recovery parition like MBRWDOS.EXE or anything else for that matter. 

 

I do have the recovery DVD's I wrote but I'm wondering if I could get my system back to bootable from the recovery partition using Alt F10 via some black magic?

 

Cheers,

 

Paul

 

 

laurent_14

Hello Paul,

 

Your laptop worked under Windows Vista (PQ SERVICE) before it?