Acer Aspire m1610 Stuck In reboot loop

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I have a acer aspire m1610 with windows 7 on it, now this has happened before and how i fixed it was i made a windows 7 repair disk and started it up with that and its worked for about a month, now its doing it again but this time when i try to run the startup repair disk i choose the dvd drive as the first boot option but it wont go into the repair thing it just keeps doing a reboot loop, please help.
 
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Yeah.... My desktop has been fixed for a while now, I didn't see your answer until now, No offense but your advise didn't help at all. I fixed it myself with a little trial and error. Here's and answer if anyone else gets this problem. I hooked the harddrive from a old laptop of mine to the desktop as a primary harddrive and it booted up. Then I hooked the original harddrive up as a secondary. Then I install windows 7 to it, I just choose the original harddrive as the partition I wanted windows to be installed on. I never tried your solution, I don't know if it would have worked or not but my way did.
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Hey PCuser2014. I'd recommend that you disconnect the drive and try connecting it either externally (via a SATA to USB cable) or internally to another computer, download the manufacturer's diagnostic software and scan the disk with it to see what it shows. If the drive is accessible when connected to another computer you should try and backup any important data which you don't want to lose (in case the HDD is failing).
Try this in order to isolate the problem so that you know what you are dealing with and if it's not because of the drive - to see if the problem lies elsewhere.

Hope that helps.
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Ok I put the harddrive into an external harddrive case and hooked it up to my laptop and I was able to access the drive, so I don't think the harddrive is the problem, any other possible solutions?
 
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Also is it possible that windows got messed up? If this is the problem is there anyway I could delete everything off the drive and reinstall windows 7 on it with another PC? I have the windows 7 installation disk.
 
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It's possible that it is indeed a software problem, that's why I recommended that you run the manufacturer's diagnostic tool tests, so that you could isolate the problem.
About the fresh install, you could always connect it externally to backup your data and format the drive. Then connect it to the laptop again and do a fresh install of Windows.
 
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Ok thanks, about the fresh install how would I do that? Just to be clear the drive is not in the laptop I put it in an external harddrive case and hooked it up to my laptop via USB. Would I just choose that drive when I install windows 7?
 
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No I didn't get windows booted at all, I put the harddrive from the broken desktop and put it in a external harddrive case and the harddrive was working, what I need to know is how I can get everything off of the drive and reinstall windows 7 on it when it is hooked up to my laptop as an external drive.
 
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If you are able to access the drive normally as you've mentioned in one of your previous posts, I'd recommend that you just copy your data to a different drive. If for some reason you can't do that, here's a link for a thread with data recovery software solutions: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html
After you recover your data, go ahead and format the drive while it is still connected externally (just in case, so that you don't go into another reboot loop when you connect it internally). When this is done, connect it internally as it was before and do a fresh install of Windows as if you're installing it to a brand new HDD.

PS: I'd still recommend before formatting the drive that you test the drive with the manufacturer's diagnostic tool so that you are sure, that there's no problem with the drive before you install Windows on it.
 
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I hope you got/recovered your data before formatting as I recommended in my previous posts. As for the "Bootmgr is missing", you've mentioned that you have a Windows 7 installation disk, so just do a fresh install. The thing is that it would be more difficult to recover your data after that if you haven't already, but you can still try some of the programs from the thread I've posted earlier.
Good luck.
 
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I dont care about the data that was on it, it was just a bunch of games that was on it, i tryed the windows 7 disk but it dosent do anything is there any way i can install win 7 on it if i put it in my external harddrive case and install it with my laptop?
 
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I'm sorry if there's something I'm missing from your explanation, but I'm not exactly sure what you've tried when you say that Windows 7 disk doesn't do anything. Do you mean that after the format you've put the HDD back to the laptop an tried to install Windows, but didn't work or something else? If you want to install Windows to the externally connected drive (which you formatted) you have to change the boot sequence of your devices and make it boot from your CD/DVD-ROM, install Windows 7 on the drive, then swap them with the drive that's already inside and change the boot order again.
It would be much easier to put the formatted drive in your laptop, insert the Windows 7 DVD, boot from it and do a fresh install.
 
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Yeah.... My desktop has been fixed for a while now, I didn't see your answer until now, No offense but your advise didn't help at all. I fixed it myself with a little trial and error. Here's and answer if anyone else gets this problem. I hooked the harddrive from a old laptop of mine to the desktop as a primary harddrive and it booted up. Then I hooked the original harddrive up as a secondary. Then I install windows 7 to it, I just choose the original harddrive as the partition I wanted windows to be installed on. I never tried your solution, I don't know if it would have worked or not but my way did.
 
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