Need iso for Aspire 9300

Hi
I need to get my 9300 with vista home basic back in shape. I have read the exelent sticky thread about acer recovery partition. My problem is that I somehow corrupted the file alocation table on the hidden partition in the prosess. (probably one of the linux tools ) I'm working on it, but since I have no guarante of success, and a bit of hurry, I'm trying for the shortcut:

Anyone out there that who can provide me with an iso of the hidden partition or iso of recoverydisk?

Alternativly I need help in finding out wich napp would go with this machine. I have acsess to acers tech site, but cant find my modell there. It looks like the napps go for 2-5 machines each.
And no, I did not make a recoverydisk when I bought it.

 

Not sure if this will help you but maybe worth a shot, the link below is a 3.9gb download of an upgrade copy of windows vista, I think this was made available when laptops were sold with xp, around the time of vista launching:

ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/vista_32_update/Acer Upgrade Kit 1.0.3009.iso

Not sure if it will work but maybe worth a shot. It will need burning to dvd.

One other thing you could try, is see if someone you know has a vista disk that you can use, and use the product key underneath the laptop, then you will be able to install.

 

Thank you bangert
I'll give it a try.

I'm making progress with my hidden partition. 8802 files that are placed in 999 folders recovered. Anyone know how many there are supposed to be? Also, beeing bootable, should there not be a few files on the root of the hidden drive?