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No OS installed, need to do a factory restore.
Hello forum. I am having issues again with my Dell Inspiron One 2305. Basically this all started with a driver issue. I would play video games such as MW2, black ops, and MW3, and use 3D software (Not ideal on this computer, but ran OK on low settings).
After I updated to the new catalyst driver, I experienced artifacts such as (you couldn't see through the sights of my gun, extreme fog on maps, and very slow FPS on maps with rain. I had tried everything for the driver so it was time I tried a factory restore (because the default drivers worked)
Anyways, the Dell Inspiron doesn't come with a CD, but a Factory Image is hidden on the harddrive. The user manual states that you were to press F8 to access the advanced boot options. However, this for some reason didn't bring up any menu. When Ever I went back into windows, I used easyBCD to try to access it at startup (It worked before with my dell inspiron on a previous problem I had)
Anyways, When I rebooted, I got the error message "BootMGR is missing"
"Press Alt + CTRL + Del to restart"
Over and over and over again. Finally, I changed the boot order to try and install Ubuntu. This seemed like it was going to work, but it froze up during the install. I then tried to use windows 8 to install over windows 7 and it told me I couldn't install (It said it wouldn't be bootable)
In a last effort, I used the windows 8 disc to actually format over C, and over the other partition that Ubuntu tried to install on.
So, currently there is no OS on the system, but there is still a recovery partition with the original factory image. Surely, there must be some way to fix my computer.
I'll stop being such an idiot and turn system restore on, and make recovery disc this time! I promise!
If you just help me I will be so grateful, because the repair shop gave a crazy estimate on fixing it.