I believe I seen the boot files while searching for the ones o needed to keep that said MBR....however the hard drive had windows 7 on it when I bought it from someone I worked with and at one time I...

OK so I believe I have all the files I am wanting. So now I need to format the drive, but remember, I cannot put the hard drive in the Acer because it is not booting up. That means I need to format...

Thank you so much for the quick response.. OK so basically here is what happened. ...after not using my laptop for practically 10 weeks I pulled it out of the laptop bag, turned it on only to find...

Before i go about with my problem I need to ask if I am in the right forum wanting to get answers to my partition issue?
No sense in wasting both our time right?