My travelmate crashed about a month ago when I download a stupid Intel chipsets driver from Acecr website. After that, I tried many times using the recovery CDs. but, it doesn't work.
I sent it to a local repairing store. they told me that they cannot fix it because acer's bios or partition table. now the pqservice - the hidden drive is gone. alt + F10 is gone. the recovery CD hanged at the last step, after I put in system CD, copied ghost file CD (disk 1 of 2, disk 2 of 2), then back to system CD. it copied all the files. then reboot, window xp logo showed up, then hang. I have been search the web for months to find a solution without shipping it back to Taiwan for restoring. the shipping cost can buy a new acer netbook. Acer aspire netbook is only $200 here under promotion. anyhow, anyone has an idea to bring back this dead machine? I read some threads, like Post Acer Disk Formatter CD ISO Image, NAPP CD, mbrwrwin, how to make it work??
I just read your posting. using ghost??? how does it work? I can see all the back up files are ghost files. can you write me instruction? I can read chinese, but my chinese PC is crashed. so, I cannot type in Chinese. but, would you help me with ghost to manully put those files into order. Acer charge $NT 800 to restore the system. I'm willing to pay for the amount if you help me to get the machines to function again. I'm avoiding to ship it back to Acer Taiwan. the shipping cost can buy a new acer netbook. Acer aspire netbook is only US$200 here under during chistmas time. It's only US$230 now plus tax.
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