I meant windoze driver that communicates with the combo drive. Which I suspect is corrupted - only complete XP reinstall will solve - but alas - no software on CD ROM, etc for reboot and reinstall............
Can't access combo drive - ACER
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Acer may have recovery partition on your PC's hard drive. If not, then they owe you at least a recovery CD that will allow you to recover Windows install. It won't necessarily be a full blown copy of Windows, but either the recovery partition and/or CD should allow you to restore the PC to brand new condition. Of course, you'll need to back up any documents, email, etc., prior to doing that because it wipes it clean.
On my PC (EMachines), during the PC boot process, a screen briefly displays that states something along the lines of press any key within x seconds to recover. If I press the key, I am taken into the recovery software where I can restore my PC to like-new condition. Again, wiping out any applications, data, etc., installed since the PC was new. Maybe your PC has something similar.
Download Knoppix and see if the drive boots it.
ALT F10 and full recovery fixed it. Wow. ACER support is the worst.
ryncdak gets the prize.
ryncdak gets the prize.
When you boot your PC press delete. This will get you into the Bios. Press enter(CMOS)should be the first option on the list of Bios options. This will show what your motherboard is reading. Look for the IDE master and slave. Your motherboard might not be reading the CDRM. Press the down arrow to get to the CDRM and enter auto detect.
Yes - the problem is solved. It took starting over - for just a driver. I'm kinda glad Acer supplied the PC with a partitioned drive and all original settings and software stashed. But the fact that the phone tech, nor any of the on-screen, on-line “HELP” that I dug into even mentioned this. My wife had to demand that they send us a boot disk and operating system (and all supplied software) – then the guy had to get the supervisor……..then the gave us the F10 trick. (I guess now days many PC's do this)
Yes, almost every manufacturer is now doing this Recovery partition, I assume it is to help cut back on $.50 worth of DVDs for every computer.
Glad that got it fixed for you Pablo, since you have that partition, use the Acer Recovery CD Program to burn the CD/DVDs so you will have them as backup in the event that something happens to your hard drive. Manufacturer's aren't very helpful if you let them know that you did not create these discs.
Glad that got it fixed for you Pablo, since you have that partition, use the Acer Recovery CD Program to burn the CD/DVDs so you will have them as backup in the event that something happens to your hard drive. Manufacturer's aren't very helpful if you let them know that you did not create these discs.
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