Hello I am having a problem with my acer C110 tablet. I am trying to restore the computer with the restore CD's Acer provided (starting with the CD that says (bootable) of course).

The tablet is one of those mini ones, doesnt have a CD drive, so I am using a USB external CD drive. The tablet apparently attempts to boot to the CD, because the screen comes up where I need to choose between a USB cd drive or FIREWIRE. I choose USB, then it goes through Initializing A: and it lists some DUSE information (I will post the exact text when the tablet is accessible again). After this it shows a blinking cursor. The cursor stays there and the restore does not proceed beyond this point. I have tried letting it sit overnight thinking it may just take a while.. same blinking cursor when I get back to it.

I called Acer yesterday and the guy was nothing short of belligerent. I told him I repartitioned the hard drive, from what I've read so far on the forum here I am not alone on this feeling that two FAT32 partitions is ridiculous, so I made one NTFS partition (I guess telling him this was a blunder on my part) Although I see nowhere in my Acer documentation that customizing, specifically repartitioning my hard drive would void my warranty, he claimed the warranty was indeed now void, and I would have to send it to Acer for $200 to fix. He said I had altered the hardware. Obviously not one of the tech savvy types. He actually refused to get a manager on the line, something I have never witnessed in my history.

Anyways I am trying to restore this tablet and was wondering if there is anything else I can do. I have an Acer C310 tablet also, I tried using the C310's restore discs to restore the C110, which works fine. Windows actually completes installation totally, except when it tries to boot it cannot, even in safe mode. So that rules out there being a problem between the CD Drive and the C110. I have read about the 2 FAT32 partitions Acer does somewhat. Apparently the 10gig partition is the hidden Acer restore files, and the 30gig is for the system. If the system is not recoverable after repartitioning, I guess I have a serious problem here. I cannot imagine this would be the case though.

If anyone could provide any other suggestions I would really appreciate it. Thanks

Prophecy

I am sitting with the exact same problem. I can not see any other replies so i would like to know if you were able to resolve the problem.
i also have an Acer Travelmate C110 Tablet.

Any help will be appreciated

jeremysa: I regret to inform you that you are left with no option other than getting a new windows version. The upsetting part is windows TabletPC edition is not sold retail. It only comes on new tablets. So either you A) purchase a new tablet, or B) purchase a new windows version (which will not have the tablet functionality, making the tablet virtually useless). Acer is absolutely zero help, as I previously mentioned. For this reason I would naturally recommend everyone to never purchase an Acer product.

PM me, I may be able to give you a hand.

I managed to get my hands on a DVD from MSDN and it had a copy of tablet PC this loads tablet PC but during the instilation it requests CD2. If you dont load CD2 the operating system works but you need a product Key. (I also did a bit of research and found out that CD2 holds the Tablet components.)

Have you heard of this and do you know where i can get CD2

no i'm unfamiliar with that. PM me i may be able to help you out

Hi I think I may be able to help you. I have a copy of original Windows XP tablet PC CD installer that somes on CD1 and CD2. I have purchased it before but unfortuantely I couldnt find the PRODUCT KEY to proceed with installation.

If you can share your product key, i can send you a copy of my CDs for your tablet PC. Of course you ahve to pay for the shipping cost to your address..

Let me know...

By the way, this will surely work for I have almost the same model... Mine is C104TCi... I lost the original restore CD that is why i purchased the CDs from microsoft...

Email me back...

im intrested mate can u send me it i will pay you asap
will it work with the acer c310 ?

ill have the disks mate
letus no how much
pm me mate will it work with acer c310?

i have tablet pc keys one of them is working i tray that key my self ...can we shair things . i send u key and can u sen me windows cd and also drivers cd .i dont have drivers cd for my travelmat c110 . begay_honth******.com