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Thread ID: 76844 2007-02-17 23:25:00 Reinstalling o/s on Acer Unimatrix013 (11533) Press F1
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525461 2007-02-17 23:25:00 Hi Everybody,
I am trying reinstall the os on an Acer Aspire SA80, which appears to have become corrupted after a crash (Power Outage) It has a sata160 gb drive configured with 3 partitions to enable system recovery. The drive came preinstalled with XP Media Centre. After the crash all partitons were corrupted so was unable to use recovery cd. Reformatted partitons and tried to reinstall os but fails at about 17% with unable to copy files, have tried to reinstall win 98, and w2k with same result. I have tried 2 different Hard Drives with same result. Looking on Acer website does not really help. Never had a problem like this before.
Unimatrix013 (11533)
525462 2007-02-17 23:39:00 Usually this problem is caused by faulty RAM, which may have also caused the original corruption.

Download and run Memtest+ (www.memtest.org) to check the RAM.
CYaBro (73)
525463 2007-02-17 23:56:00 Thanks, will try it Unimatrix013 (11533)
525464 2007-02-18 01:45:00 Thanks very much CYaBro, ran memtest multiple errors. Replaced RAM o/s installed ok.

Many Thanks
Unimatrix013 (11533)
525465 2007-02-18 03:24:00 Glad to help :cool: CYaBro (73)
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