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How to reinstall windows xp on acer laptop. Installing Windows XP on ACER laptops If the installer does not see the hard drive

Then my choice fell on MSI WIND U100. Time passed, and the device did not appear on sale. Apparently Technosila (the official dealer) did not want to distribute the new product without emptying its warehouses from its younger model - U90, which they did not want to take. As a result, Acer Aspire One was purchased. In fact, it is not inferior to the MSI product, and is much more pleasant than ASUS.

The netbook was purchased pre-installed with OS Linux Linups, which is extremely stripped down in functionality. Upgrading the OS was vital. I would have put ubuntu myself, but the person asked for XP. Since I encountered installing the OS from a flash drive for the first time, the output was in googling on this topic.

Information on the topic: “Installing Windows from a flash drive”, the sea was shoveled, but all the methods offered on the network are too laborious, and often not effective, as it happens, one thing or another.

I started searching for: “Aspire One XP”, and on one shaggy page of results I found an interesting link: Installing Windows Xp from flash on Acer Aspire One. The topic interested me very much, the method described in it was quite simple, just download one archive, and do everything step by step. BUT! At one of the stages, the process reported an error * .img file, and was bent. Then I followed the sources of the article, figured out that the article is a reprint of popular material from eee-pisi.ru, and the author added almost nothing on his own +). As a result, on that site I found an excellent tool, which, without coughing, made me a bootable USB flash drive, with which I successfully installed Windows on this device.

I did not touch the distribution kit, put the Windows as is, then screwed the firewood, and made the necessary settings.

The bottom line is: who seeks, he will find! And you will succeed! Good luck in your endeavors;)

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    I don't find anything beautiful in it. But every path has a place to exist.

    Hello! Unfortunately, I did not encounter such a problem, and after installation I returned the laptop to its owner. Perhaps the author of this blog can help? : http://5an.kz/?n=229

    Guys! Everything is much easier with a USB CD-ROM!
    The current of firewood on XP for note devices needs to be downloaded, which was not particularly problematic ... even SP2 becomes (model note 110-AW)

    And if there is a flash current?

    Minya Aduvanceg left a trail | June 30, 2009

    Oops! The article is right on topic! I have been looking for something like this for a long time. the most recently appeared Espier 150 with a 3m Hrooney servopack. One is bad. - By definition, pre-installed OSes probably don’t exist without glucomania :-(I used to think that Vista was installed clumsily, but after buying the netbook described above ... Well, okay! The main thing is now one question has been decided. in favor of the reinstall) at least I know how to screw it with a flash. MORE SANKS! And now a fly in the ointment: Who knows. - When going to sleep or hibernation (waiting / sleeping), the computer cuts down the screen, but forgets to pass out (damn insomnia!) I observe, firewood is native from small soft ones, I rearranged it more than once, it helps but not for long. Whoever has ideas, I will be glad!

    I want something like this.

    and everything went according to that instruction

    Which one?

    The system puts, but does not want to boot. what to do?

    Do, do and do again. Apparently somewhere they deviated from the instructions.

    Acer Aspire One A150 BGK - did everything exactly according to the instructions, after copying the files and reloading, through the choice of what to boot from (in the BIOS it is as it was: HDD, USB, LAN) indicated the flash drive, chose the second option, but the error is about hal.dll .What have I not done… Help!

    ACER Aspire ONE A150 BGK - did everything exactly according to the instructions, but after the second reboot it gives an error with hal.dll. I chose the second option, everything is in the BIOS as it was, the first screw. Doesn't matter….

    Unfortunately, I can’t help, I don’t have such a subnote, I don’t experiment with it.

    The problem was solved by deleting the partition with system programs.

    Thanks for posting, maybe it will help someone. Maybe me too. Thank you!

    Wareznak left a trail | November 12, 2009

    Thanks, your method helped me. it turned out to be much easier to make boot sectors using UltraISO.

    to (24 Vitalik left a trace | September 9, 2009) the operating system does not boot from the partition where it was installed (without a flash drive), so you need to change the value disk(1) to disk(0) in the boot.ini file.

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You can restore the windows 7 operating system (vista, XP, windows 8) on an acer aspire one laptop to a previous working state or completely to factory settings.

Only the last option is not suitable for everyone, but only for owners of acer laptops who bought it, with pre-installed windows 7 or another.

Then a special recovery image is written to a separate partition on the hard drive - by default it is hidden.

If you accidentally (unknowingly) messed up something, then using the first option is much better (the second one deletes all your personal files: games, programs, settings).

The first option to restore the windows operating system on an acer laptop

To restore Windows in an acer laptop, be sure to connect the charger. Then turn off and on.

When you see the laptop logo, press the two keys (at the same time) Alt + F10 (multiple times).

The Windows Acer eRecovery Management recovery utility will start (the Disk-to-Disk (D2D) option must be enabled in the BIOS).

When asked for a password, here are the standard ones: "000000", "AIM1R8", "00000000". Next, click on the line "Full restore the system to factory settings."

Yes, I almost forgot, there is also the possibility of recovery with saving user data.

On an Acer netbook, this takes about 15 minutes. Confirm with "OK". The computer will restart, and

The second option to restore the system on acer aspire one windows laptop

This recovery option can only be used if your laptop is still able to boot.

Then you can start restoring Acer eRecovery Management factory settings directly from a running Windows operating system.

To do this, click then at the bottom "all programs" and click on the line "Acer eRecovery Management".

After that, on the left side, click "restore". Then you can choose "restore the operating system and save user data" or without them. All further actions are similar to the first option.

If "work does not go", as already written above, enter the "BIOS" and in the "Main" tab, enable the "D2D Recovery" option - set the position to "Enabled".

Right after that you can press F10 and after reboot Alt + F10. Then the process described in the first option will go. Good luck.

How to install Windows XP on a laptop? If you have not installed Windows before and encountered this for the first time, then be sure to read the lesson before proceeding with the installation. There is also a lesson on . Be sure to install the program after installation ccleaner. I wrote a lesson on how to install and use the program.

Installing XP on a Toshiba Satellite L655 laptop. The problem is this:

Windows cannot start due to a corrupted or missing file: WINDOWSsystem32configsystem can try to repair this file by running Windows Setup from the original installation CD-ROM. Select 'r' in the first dialog screen to start the restore procedure

We will not restore. We will reinstall the OS. At the same time, we will learn how to install the OS. Namely Windows XP.

From armament I have only a License disk Windows XP Service Pack 3:

But that doesn't mean you have to have one. You can take Zver, chip or any other build. Maybe even pirated. Vista, 7 and 8 don't count since we have an XP lesson.

So, insert the disk into the drive, turn on the laptop and immediately hold down the key DEL or F2 on the keyboard until the computer enters BIOS. All BIOS may look different depending on the manufacturer and version. But the settings are basically the same. In our case, this is what the BIOS looks like:

Select tab "BOOT". If there is no such tab, go through the tabs and find which one contains the device boot options.

Yours should be like this too. You will immediately notice if you scroll through the tabs. Now our task is to make the laptop boot from the disk. And for this we need to swap points 1 and 2 (see photo), i.e.

be the first to do CD/DVD. in my case, to swap items, select the item and click f5 or f6. Yours may be different: + And — , or through Enter. After that, go to the tab exit, choose Save & exit setup. and press ok. Everything, the BIOS setup is finished. Your laptop is rebooting, we are waiting for the inscription to appear on the screen "Press any key to boot from CD...", which means "press any key to boot from CD". We press any key and the installation program appears immediately.

After checking the system configurations, you will be prompted to Install a system or restore an existing system. Here you must select ENTER and start installing:

Click C=continue installation:

Choose "Format partition as NTFS":

Click F:

And the program starts copying files:

After that, the computer will be restarted:

Attention!!! after the reboot, you will again be prompted to press any key - "Press any key to boot from CD ..." - do not press anything, otherwise you will start the installation again !!! Or if you want such an inscription to no longer appear, you can go into the BIOS and set the boot from the hard drive (i.e. put everything back in place) You know how, you did it.

After the reboot, we continue the installation, but in a slightly different environment:

You can do nothing and click FURTHER:

Set the date, time and time zone and click next:

If this message appears, click OK:

Select an item Postpone this action and click NEXT:

Write the account name. Up to five accounts are allowed, but this is optional. FURTHER:

Click ready:

Installation completed! HOORAY!!

It remains only to install the drivers for the normal operation of the computer. You have driver disks (usually they come with a laptop when buying) if you have kept them well. Or you can download it from the laptop or hardware manufacturer's website.

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Laptop and Windows XP - friends forever?

In continuation of a series of articles on installing Windows XP, today we will look at installing this operating system on an Acer Aspire One netbook. Reinstallation on a Windows XP laptop is done by users for various reasons. The main one is that the owners of the device want to speed up its performance. In our articles, we have repeatedly reminded that the Windows 7 operating system on a modern laptop looks preferable to XP. And installing Windows XP makes sense only if you had Vista installed as a regular OS.

But with our today's test subject, the situation is somewhat different. Its owner asked to install XP, since this OS was installed on his desktop computer, he got used to it and did not want to retrain to work with Seven. Well, the owner is a gentleman. Let's proceed with the installation.

Since we are dealing with a netbook, the task was complicated by the lack of a floppy drive. Friends did not have such a device, and buying an external drive for the sake of one installation did not smile at all. But at hand was a flash drive with a capacity of 4 GB. After studying the Web, a plan of action was drawn up for installing Windows XP on a netbook, which is described below.

Preparing a bootable USB flash drive with Windows XP

In order to do the manipulations described below, you will need:

  • Working PC or laptop;
  • USB flash drive with a capacity of at least 1 GB;
  • Distribution of Windows XP;
  • Internet connection.

Before we start working on a bootable USB flash drive, we will need to slightly adjust the Windows XP installation distribution. To do this, create a folder on your WindowsXP hard disk (in the example D:\WindowsXP) and copy all the files from your Windows XP installation disk there. You will end up with something like this:


After that, you will need to integrate the SATA drivers into our distribution. This is necessary for the Windows Installer to find the hard drive. In principle, this problem can be solved by setting the hard disk mode in the BIOS to IDE Mode. But if for some reason you do not want to change the BIOS settings, or you need the AHCI Mode enabled, then you need to perform a series of operations below.

After installation, launch nLite.




In the next window, select drivers for 32 or 64 bit OS. Depends on your operating system.


In the window that appears, select all the drivers and click OK, and then next. A dialog will appear asking you to confirm starting the driver integration process. We press Yes.


After a while, the process will end.


After preparing the distribution, you can proceed to create a bootable USB flash drive.

Recently, the vast majority of laptops come with a pre-installed Windows Vista And Windows 7. Many users have appreciated the innovations of the new operating system, but some still need to work Windows XP.

This material describes the procedure for installing Windows XP on laptops not only from Acer, eMachines or Packard Bell, but also from other manufacturers, regardless of what operating system was there before. We express all questions about installing and configuring Windows XP in this forum thread:. Before asking, I urge you to use the search on the topic.

Note: Owners of Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, and corresponding editions of Windows 7 can upgrade to Windows XP Professional for free. Read more about this opportunity

If you still decide to install Windows XP, then read on.

Preparing for installation

Now there is a clear trend when manufacturers, instead of equipping laptops with system recovery disks, create hidden partitions on the hard drive. This is typical not only for Acer, but also for many other manufacturers. It is assumed that the user himself will create them using special utilities. How to do this using the example of Acer laptops is described in this material:. If your laptop does not have a CD / DVD drive, then you can use this guide:. More details about the recovery technology from hidden partitions are described in these materials: and.

Note: in addition to system recovery disks, it is highly recommended to create images of hidden partitions. How to do this is described in this material:

One of the main problems when installing Windows XP are drivers. They can be found:

4) on manufacturers' websites.

When the drivers are already downloaded, you can start preparing the distribution.

Preparing Your Windows XP Distribution

The Windows XP distribution does not contain drivers for SATA controllers from Intel and AMD 7th and older series. As a result, when installing Windows XP, it simply will not find any hard disk. To fix this, we do ONE action from the following:

1) go into the BIOS of the laptop and switch the operating mode of the SATA controller from AHCI to IDE-mode (the names may have a different look. Compatibility mode, For example). In this case, Windows XP should install successfully. Then, integrate the drivers for the SATA controller into the already installed Windows XP. How to do this is described in this article:. When the integration is completed, in the BIOS we switch the hard drive mode back to AHCI

2) integrate drivers SATA to distribution with Windows XP. How to do this is described in this material:. The integration of SATA drivers into the distribution is discussed in this forum thread: . This is the option I recommend.

Note: You can now find a great many different builds of Windows XP with integrated drivers, service packs and other things. I strongly discourage the use of such assemblies. Practice shows that the vast majority of driver problems are associated with the use of such assemblies. The most frequent problems are with sound and with Wi-Fi adapters. That is why I recommend using the original builds of Windows XP without any drivers integrated by "craftsmen". It is recommended to use clean MSDN builds of Windows.

If you have a chipset from nVidia or from AMD 6th series, then you DO NOT need to perform the operations described above. Windows XP and so put

Installing Windows XP

Installing Windows XP on a laptop is no different than installing it on a regular PC. It is very important not to confuse the disks where to install the system. The fact is that when installing XP, hidden partitions (more about them are written here:) are visible as ordinary partitions, where it is quite possible to put XP.

BE CAREFUL! DO NOT PUT ON HIDDEN PARTITIONS OF WINDOWS XP!

Installing Windows XP from a flash drive is more complicated. It is described in these guides: Installing Windows XP from a USB flash drive or memory card and Installing Windows XP from a USB flash drive using WinToFlash.

We ask all questions about installing Windows XP in this forum thread:

When the system is already installed, you can proceed to install the drivers. How this is done is described in detail in the manual:. If you have problems installing and finding drivers, we turn to this forum topic:.

Return to Windows Vista or Windows 7

If you want to return again to the factory Windows Vista or Windows 7 with all the programs and drivers, then first you need to restore the MBR (as described here:), then you need to copy all the important information from the C: drive, because when restoring ALL information from drive C: IS ERASED! Information from disk D: remains untouched.

When all the information is copied, you can begin to restore. First you need to reboot and when a white screen appears with the inscription Acer must be pressed at the same time ALT And F10. It’s not a fact that your recovery will start the first time, you need to practice :) If it doesn’t work, then you need to go into the BIOS and see if the function is enabled eRecovery.

Note: for the automatic recovery function to work using ALT + F10, the presence of a hidden PQService partition and the original MBR are MANDATORY!

If you don't have a hidden section PQ Service, but there are recovery disks Factory Defect Disc then it will be enough just to boot from them ... and regardless of the presence of hidden partitions and the original MBR, the system will be restored.

If the process has already started, then in half an hour or an hour the laptop will have a completely restored system, as after the purchase :) And if something doesn’t work out, ask questions in the appropriate thread.

As an alternative to this technology, you can consider the method of quick system recovery, which is described in this article: /

If you have neither hidden partitions nor disks, but you want to have a licensed Vista or Windows 7, then we read these materials: Installing Windows Vista and.

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