Acer Aspire 9800 Recovery Issue

I have an Acer Aspire 9800 that has a messed up hdd. I made a set of recovery dvds when I got the laptop and I have used them in the past to restore it. Well this time I am getting an error when booting from the dvd. stcdboot.iso is corrupted.

I talked with Acer and they said tough luck. Go and buy a new windows cd and reinstall. Sucks that Acer says if you laptop is out of warranty then they no longer have the recovery disks available. This laptop has a tv tuner, etc in and came with Media Center edition so I will lose that functionality as Media Center for XP is an OEM only version. You cannot purchase it.

If anyone has a set of recovery dvds they could copy or if someone has the stcdboot.iso I could remaster my dvd and get it working. Willing to pay for your time.

 

Have you tried running erecovery from the hidden partition?
You press ALT and F10 at initial boot to enter.
Also make sure D2D recovery is enabled in the BIOS

How to Restore an Acer Laptop to Factory Condition | eHow.com

If your PC is usable you should find a full user manual installed as a pdf. Search under acer to find it.

 

Unfortunately I deleted the recovery partition ages ago.

 

There's a lesson in there somewhere...

 

Unfortunately I think I deleted that (common sense) along time ago as well...