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Reinstalling Windows XP Acer Aspire One [Solved]

aluminumcity - Latest answer on Aug 9, 2011 11:28AM

Hello,
Last weekend, I bought an Acer Aspire One D-150. I decided to put Windows 7 on it. I can not find a copy of Acer's eRecovery Management anywhere on the internet. I have tried making an image of the hidden partition with Macrium Reflect but it's not bootable. I still have the hidden partition on my HDD, I just can't boot to it. if I hold ALT+F10, I get a "Change Boot Options" screen.
I want to return this on the weekend because it was sold to me under false pretenses (I wanted an MSI model because it's better for me in a lot of ways, but they lied about the warranty on the MSI to get me to spend $50 more on the Acer). I need XP on it. Help? I need to install XP.

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olfo81 638Posts Thursday May 14, 2009Registration date October 24, 2010Last seen Jul 9, 2009 09:57AM

Dear Sir,

Please note that if you re-install XP you will lose all your data,

You will need the Windows XP installation disc!

Please do not forget to change the SATA mode on your bios!

Then you will need to boot the windows xp disc and follow the instructions!!

Install Windows on the C: partition

thanks

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Njablos - Nov 18, 2009 02:56AM

How do I reinstall windows XP professional on Aspire one notebook that doesn't have a CD Rom drive

Emanuel - Nov 23, 2009 05:46AM

Hi, Njablos.
I also have an acer aspire one. It has the recovery intergrated of windows XP. Save all your data on another disk, because the computer will be formatted doing this. Restart your acer, press "alt"+"F10" before windows starts, and it will take you to the recovery menu. From there you choose to restore it to the original state.
Hope it helps you.
/Emanuel

smi1e - Dec 28, 2009 11:44AM

Thanks a million. Works like a charm.

kicks › Emanuel - Feb 4, 2010 01:38PM

It really helped. You save my day. Thanks a lot...

casey › Emanuel - Feb 6, 2010 06:55AM

What a genius you are emmanuel! Thank you sooooooooooo much...you made all my laptop stress disappeared...worked like a charm....who knew it was THIS simple to fix!!! I thought for sure my laptop was
gonna sit there for awhile before i get irritated and toss it out..you saved my day and a lotta money too. Thanks!

musketar › Emanuel - Feb 13, 2010 08:24AM

Fantastic! You saved me! Thanks a lot !!!!!!!!!!!

matt99 › Emanuel - Mar 10, 2010 01:23PM

thanks you saved my mate jumping out the window

Matt

cd › Emanuel - Mar 15, 2010 11:00AM

Thank you so much, I have been stressing over this for the past two weeks.

lfan - Aug 9, 2011 11:28AM

THANK YOU!!!!!!! the SATA mode got me...!!! it finally found the harddrive....!

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Max_Power Aug 15, 2009 10:03AM

I'm know the asus has xp on the same recovery partition. You need to disable the fast boot function in bios first, then boot holding f9 to restart the xp install.

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RogerDodger10-4 - Jul 24, 2010 09:02PM

I have an older Acer Aspire One (Canadian retail model ZG5) that bluescreens on boot due to a virus. Even from Safe Mode, I was unable to recover, clean, etc. I followed the steps in this forum with no luck. But here's what did work:

F2 to get to the bios
From Main> disable Quick Boot
Save and exit

F12 for boot options on power up.
Select Network Boot (contrary to what common sense would dictate)

System is now happily recovering.

Am thinking just going with Win 7 upgrade now instead of update and service pak download hell. Yeesh.

ROCKSTAR_TEKNLGS - Aug 19, 2010 10:34PM

Dude it was like magic

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bp Sep 28, 2009 07:08AM

Hi,

did you manage to reinstall using recovery??

I did it for Aspire One 150X, by
start->bios prompt->Alt-F10-> recovery starts->the rest is up to you

Good luck

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mouse Oct 9, 2009 07:25PM

Restoring using alt + f10 worked great.

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drnev May 3, 2010 07:52AM

I would suggest DON'T buy acer

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khan Sep 11, 2010 05:45AM

when there is no sound in my computer it plays song very good.when i install the sound driver and play songs then it play worstly

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tomcat Feb 10, 2010 03:59AM

Of course, for "ALT+F10" to work, you must have "D2D Recovery" in BIOS ENABLED, and "SATA Mode" on AHCI (all in Main Menu).
Cheers!

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jontok Mar 12, 2010 11:01AM

Hi. I'm haveing trouble with this!!!
No matter when I press and hold ALT+F10, the damn thing goes to where you can choose safe-mode (and all that). whatever you choose from there it will begin to start up windows, then you get the Bluescreen and the whole thing restarts...

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me!!!

-jontok

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hgh May 14, 2010 01:25PM

In the "hit <f2> for settings" setup you can change a setting for the boot menu and it will be like "hit <f12> for boot menu and you have to enable it and restart your computer

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Anna Software Sep 10, 2009 08:45PM

Please visit www.oemsoftwaresource.com

They have a support page for reinstalling your OS.

They also have OS disks for sale if you need a back up.

Good luck!

Anna

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joeythetech2010 Feb 9, 2010 10:33PM

Wow I called acer and they india rude woman who i could barely understand gave me such a hard time about product registration and all this mess and I borrowed an external cd burner bios detected it and never would boot off windows xp sp3 disc and finally i gave up and searched online and alt f10 i was laughing so much on how easy that was thanks guys great freaking forum

and it even gave me an option to restore and back up my data now that is what im talking about

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ApplesOnlyMakeSauce Feb 19, 2010 01:02PM

do you have to register with microsoft when you do this does it matter if you don't

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ApplesOnlyMakeSauce Feb 19, 2010 01:12PM

Could I still have a rootkit after this method is it possible

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bairo - Mar 1, 2010 08:54PM

No... to the registration question

No.. to the root kit question

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jack34 Mar 16, 2010 01:05PM

thanks problem solved

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drnev May 3, 2010 07:55AM

If they lied to you lie to them download a cracked version of xp from a torrent and give it back

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khan Sep 11, 2010 05:45AM

when there is no sound in my computer it plays song very good.when i install the sound driver and play songs then it play worstly

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