Posts by nichos

SOLVED by These:- You can change the default menu entry to boot by either going to the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and near the top of the file changing the entry: set default="0" to another number.Count the menuentry lines until...

Luckily on the last reboot I noticed a linux menu with 4-5 option, & one was "Acer eRecovery Management" which did the XP installation all on its own even giving the option to save & install all files & programs. Then, I...

Thanx Steve,   Is it not possible to install XP as is on the USB stick?   Slipstream never worked for me, tried many times.   If I can install straight from the stick then I can install SP3 etc...

Made a mess editing boot.ini of my dual-boot Acer Aspire One netbook so that XP boots first & now will not boot in XP, giving error:-   "Windows root>\system32\hal.dll is missing please re-install a copy".   I...

Thanx,   got new drivers from Synaptic here:-    http://www.synaptics.com/support/drivers 

Acer One D255

Hi,   my acer touchpad scrolls with 2 or 1 finger in Linux but, cannot make it work in XP.   Can you help?     ......thanx     ....nick