Posts by famreeks

HI, After much effort I managed to reinstall XP from scrtatch - (All references and recovery partitions deleted in ACER) . But did this with the BIOS  having the SATA HDD set to IDE mode instead of ACHI. The system boots to XP...

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and/How-to-install-Windows-XP-from-USB-flash-drive/td-p/529005   was what solved the USB install - Thanks for all the help but I finally managed to get the XP installed...

This is doing my head in.........   I have formatted the Netbook drive ( it is a sata) by connecting it as a second drive on my desktop Via My Computer. Then I returned the HDD to the netbook.   I then created a boot...

Appreciate your interest and assistance. The netbook came with XP pro as installed - so that is why I was going to reinstall this OS. I will have another go at the USB thumb drive install and then see if I can borrow a CD USB drive-...

The model is a D255 with XP pro installed - or was .   You are absolutely correct I should have been a whole lot smarter at providing some better redundancy for my self - thanks for the slap ( I have already flogged myself...

I have removed the HDD from the Aspire netbook and connected it to my Desktop. I can read the drive and used a XP install CD to reformat ALL partitions even the recovery partition ( because recovery did not work) . However it seems to...