In my case I said 'screw ya', no dime from me. The answer was like I explained above: they will put a so called preload on the hard disk drive, that one inludes the hidden partition. I called them once to ask about this 'problem'. Yep, I know what you're probably thinking, but the bad part about that is it will probably cost money. If it indeed is, you'll have to send it in to Acer. Only difference with my situation was I didn't care a thing about it.Īnyway, are you absolutely sure that hidden partition is indeed gone, blown away to the gulag
The next steps will format the USB drive.Re: ACER ASPIRE HIDDEN PARTION RESTORATION Copy all of the contents off the USB drive (if you want to keep the contents).Insert your USB Flash Drive into your machine running Windows Vista or 7.(This article will not walk through the entire Win7 install procedure)Ĭreate a Bootable USB Flash Drive using your Windows Vista or 7 machine: Boot to the USB drive and Install Windows 7.Change the BIOS of your Acer to boot from USB drive.Copy the contents of your Windows 7 DVD or ISO to the USB flash drive.
Machine running Windows Vista or 7 to create a bootable USB stick.This article describes the steps I took to upgrade my Aspire One, but I suppose it would work on most systems. The problem is that most netbooks don’t have CD-/DVD-ROMs therefore I would need to image it using a USB flash drive. It came with Windows XP installed, so I decided I would install Windows 7. Most of the netbooks I had seen run $300+, so I think this was a pretty good deal. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I went out on Black Friday and picked up an Acer Aspire One netbook for $195.
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