Flickering "_" on my 120GB XP BRICKED?

[pommy]

I've been looking at this forum and being on my 3rd Aspire One in as many weeks - I'd like to get this one working.

I get the Acer splash screen and then to a flashing "_" and that's where it stays.

The HDD light is constantly flashing.

I have tried to boot from USB ad I get a blue screen with Bart PE...

There's a GO button in the corner.

Pressing it gives me:

Programs>Accessories>Wordpad/Calc/Paint
System Tools>Disk Copy (floppy)
A43 File Management Util
Startup
Bart Stuff Test
Remote Desktop Connection
Drive Snapshot
System>Network>
Storage>Check Disk/Disk Part/Ramdisk is at drive b:
Display>Screen resolution
Mouse
Date and time
Accessibility Options
Task Manager
Nu2Menu>Edit Menu/Reload menu/Hide/show
Keyboard layout
Bart Installer v2

Command Prompt (CMD)

Run...
About>OS Windows 5.1 SP0.0 Build 2600
Shut Down

Any ideas on what to do from here?

Thanks in advance!

 

[evi1d33d]

Looks like your OS got messed up, try reinstalling XP off a USB drive. Google for it.

 

[pommy]

Thanks for the reply - i've been trying to that for days now.

I can boot with BartPE via USB but can't finda working USB bootable XP??

 

[evi1d33d]

http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2008/09/05 ... indows-xp/