I will install Windows 7 on it, but before I like do create the Factory Recover Disk.
The netbook don't have CD drive and, the Acer program used to make the disks, called Acer eRecovery Management, only can create the its using a external CD/DVD Writer. The program message is Unable to detect a writable optical drive.
I dont't have an external CD drive and don't have Acer support in my country to ask for the disks. I think the best solution is make the Acer program write the disk on HD as a CD/DVD image so I can copy it to my desktop and burn it.
Someone has any idea on how I can create these Factory Recover disks?
Roberto Barros
Roberto BarrosRoberto Barros
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Foregoing the optical disk route, you might try getting an external hard drive that connects via USB. No need to get fancy - you can use a naked drive with a $20 adapter. Then, get a hard drive cloning program - I personally like Acronis True Image. This will allow you to clone your existing drive to the other drive, or store an image of the existing drive, that you can use the software to restore later.
As an aside: Are you sure the netbook has the required power to run Windows 7?
CoffeeBeanCoffeeBean
If you had an external usb drive you could try creating a virtual CD on the usb drive and create the system restore disk that way then use another PC to copy it onto actual media.
ColCol
Took me a while to find a suitable tool, but I did find one in the end: Virtual CD. It's made by H+H Software GmbH.
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Windows sees it as a BluRay-RW drive and you can configure the software to 'insert' a virtual blank disk (you get the choice of basically every type of disk, eg. CD-R/CD-RW/DVD+R/DVD-R/BluRay-R/etc.) the software then pumps out anything sent to it into an ISO.
The personal version comes with a 30-day free demo which seems fully functional and does the trick.
Alan IsherwoodAlan Isherwood
I had the same requirement so I could burn the Acer backup recovery disc's on a netbook that was failing in recognising nay external burners.
The program that worked like a charm was http://www.phantom-drive.com/en/default.htm
I hope this helps other out as I took ages to find it.
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My acer aspire one laptop hasn't been I'm good shape recently, almost always over 90% strain on both CPU and HDD. Not even a clean install of windows 7 helped.
I was brave enough to try one of forks of Ubuntu (correct me if I'm wrong) - lubuntu (I've never used anything Linux like) and now it works like a charm.
Before I had only 100 mg RAM left (so I could barely open one site in IE), now I have 700 MB out of 1 GB. My HDD is in better shape as well, along with my CPU (30% used).