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    Aspire One Netbook: Cannot Recover with External CD Drive

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by alexUW, Jan 14, 2011.

  1. alexUW

    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hi,

    I have an Acer Aspire One Netbook (AOA 110-1588; manufactured 11/08) that I am trying to recover.

    The reason why I'm trying to run the Recovery Discs is because when the computer starts, it gets a BSOD and then restarts (it does get past the windows xp loading screen).

    Now, to recover I bought an external DVD drive (LG) and tried using the CDs supplied with netbook. However, it gets to the Recovery Setup screen and just idles at the "Wait a Moment" screen (for hours if I let it).

    I don't think it is the Optical Drive, because this is my second recovery attempt (the BSOD problem happened before rendering the netbook useless. I recently bought the DVD drive - Black Friday - and was able to restore it. 3 weeks later it got the SAME BSOD problem. I was so happy with it working I forgot to update the BIOS/Drivers. I'm hoping that's the solution)

    Not sure where to go from here. Like I said, the Recovery CD does load, but it just idles at the "Wait a Moment" screen.

    Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
     
    alexUW, Jan 14, 2011
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    Bumpity BUMP
     
    alexUW, Jan 15, 2011
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    Jisatsu Notebook Enthusiast

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    It is possible that the partition structure on your hard drive is corrupt and Recovery can't operate properly.

    From my experience with Acer's there are three partitions:
    : (PQSERVICE) 0x12 FAT16 Hidden partition
    C: ACER (FAT32 or NTFS) Primary Partition
    D: ACERDATA (FAT32 or NTFS) Logical Partition

    You should have a structure like that.

    However if you have already backed up all you're data as well as the recovery partition, you could repartition your drive to just be:
    C: ACER (Primary Partition)
    D: ACERDATA (Primary Partition)

    But doing so you will be unable to recover your system using Alt-F10, you will need to use the recovery media from now on.
     
    Jisatsu, Jan 15, 2011
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