Packard Bell iMedia A2620UK Recovery CD

[thebeardedone]

Hi,

Not a client issue but a family member one. I am trying to acquire the recovery CD for the Packard Bell iMedia A2620UK which has Windows 7 on.

My brother decided that the prompt to create a recovery CD was not an important one, so continued to tinker with it regardless. He then decided to dual boot with Linux Mint and, shortly after, decided that he no longer liked Linux Mint so removed it. However, when the PC turns on it still has the GRUB booter that trys to start linux sending into an endless loop of starting, not being able to load and then restarting.

I believe it's just a case of just fixing the MBR but I obviously can't do this as I have no way of accessing the command prompt, so the CD is required to boot from and resolve the issue.

Kind Regards,
tbo

 

[NickCat11]

Here are the recovery disks for Windows 7 http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/windows-7-system-repair-discs/

 

[thebeardedone]

Thank you! Much appreciated ...

 

[NickCat11]

You're Welcome




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[iisjman07]

I've seen this a couple of times - all you need to do is run the command to fix the MBR. The reason is because the GRUB loader is looking for a file on the linux partition which contains a list of OS to boot from, but that partition has been removed - thus you're screwed

 

[thebeardedone]

All is ok. Took me all of five minutes to fix and set up after I made up the CD.

Thanks again,
tbo

 

[AtYourService]

your hobby site url link is messed up and also it only goes to a parked godaddy page

 

[thebeardedone]

Yeah, I no longer have that site but I just forgot to update it on here

I'll sort it now ...