Acer aspire one d250 reinstall windows xp

I got my AOA and it would just hang at the Enter your time zone screen. Thanks for your help! All is well. Uncle gave me AOA Has xp sticker on bottom. I think he reformatted and did away with restore partition. He put Vista on it. I want to get xphome back on it and use the key that came with.

I am not sure where to start. End User. The first thing to check is that the restore partition is indeed missing. If the restore partition really is gone, you might try finding a spare Windows XP installation CD it will need to be the same version of XP, including service pack, that is listed on the XP license sticker. I had vista installed and I had a surprise when trying to restore XP in my acerone and.. Thanks for posting your very clear instructions Random. I presumed at any point I could just boot from the recovery partition and get back to out of the box state — How wrong I was!

You should be able to use steps similar to those I posted above. The main trick is setting the restore partition to be active and bootable, so that your BIOS will find it and load up the restore software. It is failing on second source file 60EA Anyone willing to post MD5 checksums for the D2D image files so I can check whether mine are corrupt? Awesome guide! Works like a charm, only hick-up I encountered during the procedure was the hassle of making the USB device bootable.

Your guide was excellect…although not for newbies…but if you know what you are doing, it works like a charm. Followed the above to the letter. If you quickly hit the power button two times, it usually boots correctly.

This guide is amazing! Thank you so much! You can try contacting Acer support. Just found this guide after ubuntu messing up my MBR. This is by far the easiest method to restoring the acer one. I had similar problem if anyone is having, I installed Windows 7 and needed to revert back to Windows XP. I was then able to restore. It assumes that you already have one setup. We installed tiny windows 7 and want to go back to xp on our AOA.

We have the system cd and the xp cd that came with the aoa and we have an external cdrom. Any help would be great. Thank you. I had a similar problem. If you have an external CD-ROM drive, you can simply burn the system rescue CD image to a disc and boot from it, then follow the rest of the steps outlined in my post.

To burn images to disc, I recommend ISO recorder. Hope this helps at least someone out there…. It was not running from safe mode or from the start menu, but that F-ing worked!! Please help me- thanks in advance. Greetings from the cold Switzerland. I had also installed windows 7 ultimate rc to try it out, it actually runs fairly well on this little machine , but wanted to get the xp back on especially before june 1st the cutoff date.

Thanks soooo much for your totally unsolicited and goodness of your own heart for the help that you offer. Awesome stuff. Thanks for the great howto!! Shottie that work great.. NOw I just need to open this baby up and chip it a little more….. The corny Windows XP set up music never sounded so catchy. I had Windows 7 on my AA1, it used to crash very often while watching videos etc. Works like a charm. Thank you so so so much!!! Dude, you have no Idea how much time I have spent looking for a solution to the not working acer eRecovery management system.

I have no words to tell you how much I thank you!!! I went through the steps above however the 2nd partition does not show up on gparted the first partition is there and is marked as boot any suggestions? It seems that the drive took a hit. You might have better luck with a different Linux Distro. I got to step 4, but when I deleted the 2nd partition, I created a new one and tried to format to ntfs mode, but there is an error.

Any ideas? Id like to share a few problems that appeared while my attempt to restore aspire one KAV60 model…. The machine booted allright after I mounted SystemRescueCd 1. Thank you once again, I just wanted to share some small problems appeared and how to go around them to finish the job successfully….

Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Using Third Party Software, including hardware drivers can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from booting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that any problems resulting from the use of Third Party Software can be solved.

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Cancel Submit. Abdul Raqeeb Kola. Hi, Thank you for posting your question in Microsoft Community! I will try to help you with this. Is the disk bootable one? You may also contact Acer for further assistance. We look forward to hearing back from you. How satisfied are you with this reply?