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    Acer 3680 format issue

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by sickZ, Aug 30, 2008.

  1. sickZ

    sickZ Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys I have an Acer3680 laptop, and the HD just went out on it. I have a brand new 120GB HD that came with my m1330 laptop (changed it out to a 200gb when I bought it) so I slapped it in, BIOS recognizes it fine. I put in the recovery disk to install the OS onto it, and I keep getting an error 0xa0000003 when I put in the 2nd disk to start the partitioning. Anyone have any thoughts or ideas? Thanks in advance!!
     
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    You are posting the wrong code.
    Is it 0x00000003 or 0x000000A3 ??
     
    Andy, Aug 30, 2008
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    sickZ Notebook Enthusiast

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    Nope the laptop is right next to me with the error and it says 0xa0000003.
     
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    Is the HDD NTFS fomatted or FAT32 ?

    D2D Recovery Enabled in BIOS ?
     
    Andy, Aug 30, 2008
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    HERE IS HOW TO FIX YOUR PROBLEM:
    visit www.acerpanam.com, click on support solutions and then in advanced search. after that type ISO after the AND option and click on search.
    click on the first link and save the file to your desktop. Burn the image to a CD, after that put it in your cd rom and restart your system. It will say STARTING windows 98, type Y. This will let you run the recovery normally and the error will no longer appear.
    (Of course you eill need another computer to download and burn the file)
    Good luck)
    Let me know how it went,
    more info [email protected]
     
    RAULQ1978, Dec 29, 2008
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