I'm following the instructions to the letter, and my factory CD drive
isn't recognizing the disks that came with my Acer c110 Travelmate.
It won't boot to them.

When I plug in a seperate USB cd-rom an put the system disk in, it
boots up to dos,gives a bunch of error messages and none of the .exe
or .bat files in the disk do anything of consequence...mostly errors
when you run them.

I've tried the eRecovery stuff by pressing alt+f10 when the system is
at bios splash screen. It doesn't do anything either, continues into
windows.

Any ideas?

Do you have the BIOS set for first boot attempt off the CD? If you're
following the instructions, perhaps something is wrong with the unit. I'd
suggest you contact Acer Support and have them guide you through the process
so they might be able to determine what is happening. You might be missing
a step, or perhaps the media isn't correct.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
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Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

<kellyj00******.com> wrote in message
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> I'm following the instructions to the letter, and my factory CD drive
> isn't recognizing the disks that came with my Acer c110 Travelmate.
> It won't boot to them.
>
> When I plug in a seperate USB cd-rom an put the system disk in, it
> boots up to dos,gives a bunch of error messages and none of the .exe
> or .bat files in the disk do anything of consequence...mostly errors
> when you run them.
>
> I've tried the eRecovery stuff by pressing alt+f10 when the system is
> at bios splash screen. It doesn't do anything either, continues into
> windows.
>
> Any ideas?
>

On Apr 24, 10:47 am, "kelly...******.com" <kelly...******.com> wrote:
> I'm following the instructions to the letter, and my factory CD drive
> isn't recognizing the disks that came with my Acer c110 Travelmate.
> It won't boot to them.
>
> When I plug in a seperate USB cd-rom an put the system disk in, it
> boots up to dos,gives a bunch of error messages and none of the .exe
> or .bat files in the disk do anything of consequence...mostly errors
> when you run them.
>
> I've tried the eRecovery stuff by pressing alt+f10 when the system is
> at bios splash screen. It doesn't do anything either, continues into
> windows.
>
> Any ideas?

The proprietary Acer cd Drives are notoriously unreliable. Can you
tell if the drive is running the cd? Does it spin? Acer has suggested
to me a voodoo ceremony of: first plug in the power, then plug in the
connector. OR conversely, connect the drive and then power on. OR put
the CD in and then try either of the above. If you have access to
another Acer drive, you might try that. I DO know that you must use
their drive for the recovery.
mare