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   Posted by: Shadow of Chaos
   Member

   (First, for the record, it's an Aspire One XP edition.)

   Alright, first, to get the "how I got here" stuff out of the way... After buying my Aspire One off of BestBuy on the third of march (Yeah, it's been less than a month), it's been giving me a serious ammount of trouble. I didn't expect it to be as powerful as my old laptop (Whose internal power system died and I didn't want to bother repairing it for the fourth time), but I didn't expect it to be so bad that it's file system continously corrupted to the point where, after less than a week of use, it would no longer start (Just Blue screening when trying to load XP).

   Now, at first this pissed me off (Since it doesn't have a CD/DVD drive, the old XP recovery disks I have from my last computer are/were useless), but I found that erecovery thing that was included on the thing instead of it's own recovery disks.

   So, I recovered using that, and everything was fine for about 2 weeks, then it died again. This time, though, the erecovery failed, citing an error I can't exactly recall. I sent it off to BestBuy's guys, thinking I might as well take advantage of the warrenty, but, they want me to pay $120 dollars for them to fix it- and I have to get my own recovery disks (Which, if I HAD, I wouldn't have brought the thing to them).

   So, basically, as soon as I get it back from them (No, I won't have them reinstall the OS- that's too damn expensive), I want to fix the thing myself. Looking through here has told me of USB drives that do the same thing as a recovery disk, sans the disk. I would like to know, if someone wouldn't mind explaining it to me step by step, how I would go about creating one of these, and then how to use it to fix the AAO.

   I would also perfer, if possible, a reletively safe method- I've seen descriptions of people doing this and wiping their hard drives, which is something I cannot afford to do. I'm more than capable of using it for whatever I would need it to do (Torrenting the Recovery Disk, getting drivers, etc), but having it not function is out of the question.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: TechieDiva
   Moderator

   Honestly, it sounds like your hard drive might have some bad sectors or something else which is causing it to fail. You can always send it to acer, and it can be repaired. If you don't want to take that route you can try and run a hard drive diagnostic (e.g. WDDIAG) on it. If it passes then it could be something else, but the erecovery usually works pretty well with no errors.

   Also, if you want to reload it, check the info below. Proceed at your own risk.

   there is a torrent out there of OEM XP. I think it is called "Unofficial Aspire One XP Recovery Disc".

   I haven't used it, but I read it has all the drivers already. You will still need an external optical drive, or role your own bootable usb thumbdrive.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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