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Oops. I just bricked my laptop. Help!

 
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:18 am    Post subject: Oops. I just bricked my laptop. Help! Reply with quote
Luckily Uni has computers so i can post here.

Right
Yesterday i successfully installed Windows 7 on my computer. Having had many problems in the past with OS's burnt to dvd from a .iso (Install fucking up halfway through) I decided to install it on my second hard drive and keep windows on the first (having not dual booted ever before, it was unknown territory to me). However the install was successful, as some of you know, and all was well. however i noticed that my other hard drive wasn't showing up (thus having half the computer space).

I put this down to having dual booted and guessed you couldnt access the other disc if you did this. So i thought no problems! i'll just format the hard drive with the old windows. So i booted from the w7 disc and formatted and restarted, however upon restart (even when i set it to boot from the partitions) it ran the boot disc. I thought oh shi- and (trust me this made logical sense at the time) thought it best to format both hard drives and start afresh. So i clicked format on both of them, both formatted correctly.

Then when i tried to install it on either it said "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the setup log files for more information". Then I knew i was in the shit.

Upon booting without the disc i get "BOOTMGR is missing". Fuck.

I know I'm probably fucked and will have to get a 'computer guy' out (most likely as i dont have the tools needed) or send it back to the manufacturer.

Thought it was worth a shot asking here.

Thanks to anyone if they can help.

more info:
Running on an acer Aspire 7720G.
The w7 is the only disc i have access to (acer don't send any discs with their product)

Update:
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Reading around i found this:
never ran across an error like this before. I tryed a bunch of things, but what worked for me was to physically disconnect all other hard drives from my system. This was odd because even though my RAID drives weren't deceted by the win 7 installer( for lack of drivers) it would not let me install on a fresh drive with them connected.

So try to disconnect all your other hard drives for the install, and see if that works.

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/99609816/m/902006456931
Which worked for another person, looks like i may have to purchase a small screwdriver from somewhere.

update2: bluegh explained to repair guy the problem and he quoted me 25£ (with travel for me == 30£) which is nothing really.

if anyone has any idea I'm all for free advice x
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
There isn't a PC anywhere..
Anyway i can install it on my usb on a mac?
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
the laptop's 2 hard drives is more than likely just 2 partitions on a single HDD. (1 for normal use and 1 as backup instead of a restore CD)
the easiest way I can see to fix it is boot from w7 disc, delete both partitions not format and then you should have X amount of GB "unpartitioned" space, create a new partition the full size of the X amount then re-install w7
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Thanks Irwin, worked a treat.
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