Please Help

[kai_kul]

Hi guys,

I got my Aspire One the other day. Spent a while trying to use Linpus and fell flat on my face. I thought I'd be able to put XP straight onto it the Aspire One using the disc. It gets so far and then says "cannot locate asms files" or something.

I have no idea what has happened, but now I'm left with a computer and no operating system.

I tried using the Linux disc I got with the computer, but I can't even get it to go back to its original settings.

Please help! I'm terrified I've broken it all.

I'm a total amateur by the way, so I don't get most of the stuff on these forums.

P.S. If it is possible to find a solution that results in me being able to use Windows rather than Linux, that would be preferable.
Bottom line though, I just want it to work again

Thanks guys

 

[Raido]

Well, I don't know what config you were using when (re)installing, but,

The most direct way for an install would be to plug a USB external dvd drive into the AOne directly, and boot the dvd directly off that (have to push the F12 key during startup, I think).

That should work, theoretically, if it doesn't, you may want to call Acer (maybe the install dvd got scratched, for instance). I wouldn't worry too much, btw, this doesn't sound like a hardware failure so it should be possible to get it back up on Linux at least.

 

[ginguskahn]

If you are installing from an external cdrom your need to point the installer to look at it, it should be d:\I386

 

[pierze]

If you are installing from an external cdrom your need to point the installer to look at it, it should be d:\I386

I'm installing from an SD card in a USB drive with a copy of my XP CD (obviously my Aspire doesn't have a CD drive so I have to do it this way). When I get the "asms missing" error the "copy files from:" box is pre-populated with a funny string like this:

GLOBALROOT\DEVICE\HARDDISK1\PARTITION1\$WIN_NT$.~\I386\

Any idea what that's all about? I've tried using "D:\I386" (and lots of different versions like that), but nothing works...