Posts by hiloguy

When I got my Acer netbook I had no way of burning a recovery disc for it. I have an external drive now, but the eRecovery utility won't let me burn a recovery disc any more. Is there a way I can still do it?

It doesn't matter what the source of the audio is. Headphone jack gets full volume, speakers are barely audible.

My nearly-new Acer One Netbook had fairly low volume from the speakers when new. Now it is barely audible. The headphone jack delivers full volume. Control panel and the on-screen indicator show full volume. Any ideas?

OK, I finally got around to taking care of this. I found an old 2.5" HD external case, installed the drive, connected it to my desktop, formatted the drive, reinstalled it in the Toshiba notebook, powered it up, and there it was...

The Windows install set brings up that grubloader Error 71 and then locks up. This, as they say, is where we came in. I guess that since it didn't wipe the drive clean on the first install attempt, it left just enough of the Grub...

This computer is for a young girl who is not interested in learning Linux, only in having everything work out of the box. So I ordered an external case in which I'll wipe the HD and then it should take the original WIN-XP CD set with no...

OK, thanks! I ordered an external housing and will wipe the drive that way. I need to get WIN XP back on this thing for my granddaughter so it will be easy for her. Ubuntu is great for my use (It's on some other computers in our...

I have a Toshiba 1135 notebook that has been running Ubuntu 8.10. I want to give it to my granddaughter and tried to install the original WIN XP restore CD set. The install seemed to go fine, announcing that it was going to wipe the...

OK, now it will actually power up, but neither the Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD nor the W-XP install CD will do anything. It's like it doesn't even access the CD drive, but just quits with a bios message about error 71. I read somewhere on this...

I already tried that, but at this point the problem is no longer that it won't boot up, the problem is that it won't POWER up. The power switch does nothing.