I thought I would be smart and throw Ubuntu on my netbook as soon as I got it. While not being a big fan of Ubuntu, my prefered option of Archlinux had some issues with the D250 that I didn't want to resolve right away. So I loaded up a spare USB stick with Ubuntu and created a dualboot system.
Fortunately I was smart enough to leave the recovery partition alone.
I tried out Ubuntu 9.04 and found that I really just didn't care for the feel of it on the netbook. I have it loaded on a laptop and it works fine, but for the netbook it never "felt" right. So now comes the tricky part. How do I remove it without a CD drive? How do I get the system back online? First off don't boot into the recovery partition. That will screw up Grub and you will have to reinstall it to get it to work. (I did, and I'll include those instructions later.)
Boot into your windows load and download http://www.partitionwizard.com/ . There are others out there that are similar, but this one is FREE as in Beer and does the job quite well.
Use Partition Wizard to change the file type of the recovery partition to NTFS. Mount the drive and then run the MBR recovery program. Many times it will have MBR in the filename, but mine did not. This will remove grub and put the Acer MBR back on the system. Just remember to change the partition type back to the Compaq type that way you don't accidentally overwrite your recovery partition.
I've since purchased Windows 7 and installed that. I don't know if it's everything that Micro$oft claims it to be, but I do like it better than Vista. Vista just plain sucked. It has a lot of the look and feel of Vista, but it works.
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