My AOA110 has failed once again in the same manner as the first, which is a BSOD while booting into WinXP Home. The error screen disappears so fast that I can't read the info therein, and it immediately reboots. The first time I couldn't obtain recovery disks, so I returned it to Acer for warranty repair. Now it has failed again, the warranty is expired, and recovery disks are still nowhere to be found, even on Ebay. Wouldn't we expect to have recovery disks in the original package? Does anyone have any idea where to obtain these? The netbook came with two CDs, one labelled "System," which will boot, and the other "Windows XP Operating System" which will not. When I let the System disk boot it re-partitions the HD and then asks for "Recovery Disk 1," which I never had and don't appear to be available anywhere.
I'm the IT mgr. in this office and in my 30 years of experience with computers I've never worked with one that didn't have the ability to recover to its original state. OTOH, this is the only netbook we've had in the office and perhaps this is typical for these devices--but if it is I won't be ordering more. I don't want to install with another OS license if possible, and all we have here are Pro versions of XP and Win7, which may or may not work with available drivers. Any help will be appreciated.
