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[JeffGilbert]

I've got an Acer Aspire S3, Windows 8 with no optical drive.  

The hard drive completely failed and I replaced it with a 250GB SSD.

I didn't make a recovery USB before it failed.

I got the set of 5 recovery CDs from acer.

I dont have an external CD drive available.

How can I use another computer to create a recovery USB drive from the Acer Recovery Disc set?

What I've tried so far:

I've been able to make bootable USB stick with the ISO image from disc 1.  Now its prompting me to put the next CD in the optical drive. I tried making another stick with the image from the second disc, but it still prompts to "insert the next cd in the optical drive"  I tried putting the second disc image in a directory of the first bootable stick.  It still wasn't found.  I feel like I'm close...

Alternatively, I have the ability to mount the new SSD in another computer that does have a CD Drive.  Is there a way that I can copy the CDs to the new drive (maybe in a separate partition) so I can run the recovery sw from there?

How do I make a functional USB recovery stick from the set of 5 Acer Recovery CDs?

Cheers

[finlux]

Hi Jeff

I'm not sure you can.

The best thing to do is to buy a USB optical drive - they're not expensive - and to load your disks on that.