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    Acer 5135 ICL50 Problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Bugs78, Feb 25, 2010.

  1. Bugs78

    Bugs78 Newbie

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    Hiya,

    Iv been given this laptop to re-install windows on after a blue screen of death me being me I went in feet first and wiped the drive including all partitions, only then did I find out about the hidden recovery partition, so I could have kicked myself.

    anyway I thought no bother just re-install off CD, The Vista DVD just says no bootable media, and iv tried two different copies with the same thing. XP CD loads and I add the S-ATA driver off the floppy, and comes up with the partitions which I re-create, then then it comes to format it, on a quick format it gets to 20% then comes up with an error saying the disk maybe damaged and if its SCSI make sure its terminated.

    Iv made sure the driver is correct and it is, I just dont know where to go from here.

    has anyone come across this?
     
    Bugs78, Feb 25, 2010
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  2. .NetRolller 3D

    .NetRolller 3D Notebook Deity

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    Have you tried setting your HDDs to IDE mode (instead of AHCI)? That often helps, and you can probably set your HDD mode back to AHCI after you have installed the OS & AHCI drivers.
     
    .NetRolller 3D, Mar 5, 2010
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