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Thread ID: 100934	2009-06-26 01:51:00	Acer Recovery disc	kennybouy (11550)	Press F1

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785992	2009-06-26 08:45:00	How does it not boot? What stop does it freeze/stop?	Blam (54)
785993	2009-06-26 22:14:00	How does it not boot? What stop does it freeze/stop? ok...last night we loaded a trial version of Windows 7 on the D drive. It works. So its not the stuffed hard drive like the pc repair man said but XP on C drive corrupted. This must of happened when I removed a program from it. So, can I boot the LT from a spare disc copy of XP using my Windows registration on the label on the bottom of the LT. Then do a repair previous version of windows XP from there? If I stick with Win 7 from D drive I have to down load all the acer drivers and not sure if they are available yet for this 3-4 yr old LT.....Thanks every one for your suggestions.	kennybouy (11550)
785994	2009-06-26 22:23:00	You can try doing a repair install, this may or may not fix it. If there's nothing on there you actually need and don't have backed up then why not fully format the drive and reinstall? Otherwise your going to have to go though the process of fixing the master boot record when you remove 7, and a fresh install of Windows is always good. I suggest you grap the hard drive manufacturers diagnostic tool of their website (seagate = seatools, western digital = data lifeguard) and give the drive a good run though to see if it does actually have a problem.	stormdragon (6013)
785995	2009-06-26 22:31:00	You can try doing a repair install, this may or may not fix it. If there's nothing on there you actually need and don't have backed up then why not fully format the drive and reinstall? Otherwise your going to have to go though the process of fixing the master boot record when you remove 7, and a fresh install of Windows is always good. I suggest you grap the hard drive manufacturers diagnostic tool of their website (seagate = seatools, western digital = data lifeguard) and give the drive a good run though to see if it does actually have a problem. Is this looking for a hard or soft ware problem on C drive. If I do the above, will I still have to down load drivers afterwards?	kennybouy (11550)
785996	2009-06-26 22:40:00	I won't say whether its hardware or software related, but I presume that the "pc repair man" had some reason behind saying the drive was stuffed. He may be completely wrong though, and it doesn't hurt to download the diagnostics tool and give it a run at least that way you should kinda know. Yes if you do a whole fresh install you'll need to download the drivers from Acer's website, but finding XP drivers shouldn't be an issue since it came with XP preloaded. Acer loads their systems with alot of bloatware to start of with and then after a couple of years Windows becomes highly bloated as well and its therefore advantageous at times to simply start a fresh.	stormdragon (6013)
785997	2009-06-27 00:09:00	quite like the idea of doing a fresh install.... Whats the procedure for that. ie: 1st, do I have to do a fresh format of c drive then down load the xp. or can I just over right c drive? ta	kennybouy (11550)
785998	2009-06-27 00:13:00	During the installation it will ask you what drive you want it on. From there you can also format any drives to NTFS or FAT. Blam	Blam (54)
785999	2009-06-27 00:17:00	During the installation it will ask you what drive you want it on. From there you can also format any drives to NTFS or FAT. Blam Blam, in your opinion, would you put the fresh install on c or d and why? and whats NTFS or FAT? cheers	kennybouy (11550)
786000	2009-06-27 00:31:00	During the installation it will ask you what drive you want it on. From there you can also format any drives to NTFS or FAT. Blam Blam, in your opinion, would you put the fresh install on c or d and why? and whats NTFS or FAT? cheers	kennybouy (11550)
786001	2009-06-27 00:39:00	No difference what letter. They're just partitions. Logically I would put it on C. NTFS or FAT a file systems for a partiton. NTFS offers better security, compression and is much better than FAT32. No 4gb file limit either. No place for FAT32 these days:) Blam	Blam (54)
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