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    Good old Acer (Travelmate 4230)

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Quilty997, Jan 3, 2009.

  1. Quilty997

    Quilty997 Notebook Consultant

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    When visiting family over the holiday period I was asked to have a look at an 'unuseable' Acer laptop. It was infested with a horde of nasties which could have taken considerable time to remove.

    It was a Travelmate 4230 with an early 2Ghz dual core cpu, 512k RAM, 943 chipset and XP SP2.

    As time was short (it was xmas day too!) I popped in 2Gb of 667 RAM I had with me and ran a factory reinstall from the recovery partition (after the owner had backed her data up and moved it from the C to D partition).

    It took a few attempts to get the recovery underway, but it then ran smoothly, followed by the XP and other security downloads.

    This was the first time I had used the recovery process 'in anger' on a crippled machine and overall was very pleased with the results as was the machine's owner :D .

    So a very big well done to Acer for designing a pretty good and quick recovery process.
     
    Quilty997, Jan 3, 2009
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