Installed WIN7 but did not delete factory image....

I have a AOA150-1777. It came with XP Home on it. I recently installed WIN7 on it. To see how it would run etc. I did not delete the factory image. How would I revert back to Windows XP? When I go to disk management in WIN7. I cannot mark the partition as active. It shows up blank.

 

Please any one? I really need help on this.

 

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The Acer Aspire One XP installation has a "Special Master Boot Record (MBR)" which allows you to reinstall XP from the D2D bios menu.

But Windows 7 writes over this master boot record. So you have to reinstall the "D2D Master Boot Record", there is a thread on this forum where I linked to the needed files.

I simply image the hard drive with Acronis before any changes, so I have never needed to perform this D2D recovery method.

So your options are;
1) Repair the D2D MBR.
2) Reinstall from the recovery CD's
3) Use Acronis and write a copy of MBR from another AOA 110 / 150 XP installation, then use the D2D Bios menu for recovery.

 

is it acronis true image u mean or another one of their programs-

 

Acronis True Image.

I wonder if Windows 7 would have corrupted the OEM partition with it's Windows 7 reserve partition. If so you might copy both the MBR and recovery partitions from another aspire one.

 

where is the mbr saved?

 

On the hard drive. Shows as three items copied from hard drive in Acronis; recovery partion, MBR, OS install.