Acer Aspire 5536g Vista install problem

Hi.

I've been trying to format my C and reinstall Vista on it, however I can't even start my recovery Cd without getting the error message "FAIL to get Disk 0 partition 1 drive letter". And that's as far as I'm comming.

The computer started acting up when I suddenly couldn't log into my account on the computer anymore, after that I tried creating a new account (admin) and do a quick recovery, but I keep getting the above error message.

I'm really clueless as to why I'm getting the error message, and I'm not sure what more information you might need. If there is anything, please ask, thank you.

 

I had this same problem with the recovery disks. I assume you have experience with partitions tables. You should download a live linux os( http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download), burn it to a cd and boot it. From there you should use the application called "fdisk".

In my case, I defined the first partition with an id of hex "27"(unknown). I also made a second partition with an id of hex "07"(ntfs) and make it the boot partition but I doubt that that would have had anything to do with it.

After that, I could run the recovery disks and so on...

I hope that this helped. For technicalities to do with using fdisk, just look on the ubuntu forms.

 

Gparted is a nice live linux based disk formatting/partitioning tool also--uses a gui (ooh the shiny) and handles ntfs no problem.

Can you get into the hard disk based recovery tool? (alt-f10 I think it was on mine)