Aspire One AO533 Recovery Disk
On my Aspire 533 there is an APP that allows you to make a complete System Recovery CD and/or driver utility CD and first of all these Netbooks never had a CD rom or burner and secondly even if it did it displays the error that my hard drive is not configured for this. The hard drive was never formatted deleting the recovery partition and the only thing that was done was I flashed the BIOS with a newer version in 2010. Also other than purchasing an external CD burner, can this be achieved by using a USB flash drive instead or though my working network? Or is it to the point that factory restore is no longer an option while using the operating system and I have to boot into the recovery partition from BIOS? Other than downloading the drivers from Acer, is a logical option of just doing a fresh install of Windows 7 Starter off of a USB drive a better option? My complaint about the installed programs or should I say useless bloat ware is the Norton and McCaffee that when installed are such resource hogs that bring this already underpowered netbook down to its knees. When I did a recovery bringing it to like new with no viruses those two programs made this netbook almost useless. Also even with Norton I still ended up with viruses prompting me to rip it out and replace with better software. Anyway for a "just in case" senario what do I have to do to enable the function of creating a recovery and driver/utility so that if a clean install of Win7 Starter from USB fails to install all of the proper drivers and utilities I can fall back on these?