http://community.acer.com/t5/Ultra-Thin/Aspire-S3-recovery-media/m-p/202173#M6941 <P>I had a hard drive go bad on my aspire S3 (MS2346, Windows 7) so I purchased the recovery media which the store states "Availability of eRecovery media on CDs/DVDs or Thumb Drive is based on your model." You'd think that means that for an S3 they'd send you the thumb-drive but no, instead I got 4 DVD's and I don't have an external DVD drive. My wife opened the package before I got home so now Acer is giving me the no returns/exchanges on open software stonewall. Very frustrating since they clearly misrepresented what they were selling.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there anyway to put these disks on an 8 GB thumb drive (I only have one) and successfully recover the OS?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Note: I was able to recover the original HD to working condition but I couldn't make an image due to all the bad sectors.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks.</P> Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:49:33 GMT jafrost 2014-01-27T22:49:33Z http://community.acer.com/t5/Ultra-Thin/Aspire-S3-recovery-media/m-p/202173#M6941 <P>I had a hard drive go bad on my aspire S3 (MS2346, Windows 7) so I purchased the recovery media which the store states "Availability of eRecovery media on CDs/DVDs or Thumb Drive is based on your model." You'd think that means that for an S3 they'd send you the thumb-drive but no, instead I got 4 DVD's and I don't have an external DVD drive. My wife opened the package before I got home so now Acer is giving me the no returns/exchanges on open software stonewall. Very frustrating since they clearly misrepresented what they were selling.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there anyway to put these disks on an 8 GB thumb drive (I only have one) and successfully recover the OS?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Note: I was able to recover the original HD to working condition but I couldn't make an image due to all the bad sectors.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks.</P> Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:49:33 GMT http://community.acer.com/t5/Ultra-Thin/Aspire-S3-recovery-media/m-p/202173#M6941 jafrost 2014-01-27T22:49:33Z http://community.acer.com/t5/Ultra-Thin/Aspire-S3-recovery-media/m-p/202307#M6945 <P>Hi jafrost!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>See <A target="_self" href="http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/how-to-make-a-bootable-usb-with-oem-windows7-no/a3b5b1df-e50e-453f-9a21-79e9e31039d5">here</A>&nbsp;for help on how to do so. Incidental, it might be worth buying an external optical drive - they are pretty cheap at the moment!</P> Tue, 28 Jan 2014 05:31:48 GMT http://community.acer.com/t5/Ultra-Thin/Aspire-S3-recovery-media/m-p/202307#M6945 finlux 2014-01-28T05:31:48Z