Download Free Acer Aspire One D255 Windows 7 Starter Recovery Disc Iso Software

This week ended with an Acer Aspire One notebook Windows 7 Starter disaster recovery. Well, actually it was one of those $199 notebooks that was hardly worth the recovery of the hardware, but the data that was previously on the notebook was definitely worth a lot more than the value of the hardware. The Acer Aspire One notebook hard drive crashed just after 1 year from the purchase date.

Freshly out of warranty the big contemplation began. To buy new or not to buy new. With 2.5″ SATA hard drives priced at about $80 and no recovery disks one begins to teeter towards replacing the unit at a fresh $249. We searched high and low for a used 2.5″ SATA hard drive. It was extremely difficult to find anything used that was closer to to the 100GB without sacrificing too much speed.

May 31, 2015 - The first step would be to obtain a Windows 7 32-bit disc or ISO. River downloads, the only legal method to obtain said ISO for free is. So if Acer can't or won't send you recovery discs, you'll have to. Simply select Windows 7 Starter, format the drive, enter your key. Max ram for Acer Aspire one D255. Download Free Acer Aspire One D255 Windows 7 Starter Recovery Disc Iso Software.

The Acer Aspire One sat on a shelf for almost 2 years until the need or should say the nice to have notebook became more of a necessity. So the project of reviving this unit began once again. The original hard drive was 160GB which was more than plenty of space for an avid user and with our base online backup of 500GB priced at $24.50/year, one would sure never to need more space for the online backup. The smallest new hard drive we could locate was 500GB.

At $90 + tax and another $50 for an Acer Aspire One restore disk we were off an running. Well, the tech at Futureshop gave me a one final “goodluck” comment as he watched me turn and walk away, I began to think does he know something I don’t know or has he been down this road before? In hindsight I should have taken that comment and opted for his expertise to restore the operating system. Now that it is complete I look back and think that for another $50 (or $190 total) I could have had it done by the experts. While now that I think about it, not much of an expert that watched me walk into a brick wall after I left his store.

After launching the restore disks and repeatedly having to restart because Windows wouldn’t get past this popup message. So I began my online research.

Ok folks, I’m a techy, and some of you may have experienced this before but it took me a while to figure out and this lesson was learned deeply so that I will never forget. So many people have actually had this problem before much to my surprise as the forums were littered with suggestions of how to get through this hurdle of restoring windows on this Acer Aspire One notebook. I knew I was in too deep at this point because even if I attempted to back out, I may have been able to return the hard drive but I think I would have been out of luck with the copy of restore disks. Most likely they would have accused me of making a copy and trying to return them.

While I couldn’t clone the hard drive, there were at times where I would have returned it to its basic building blocks of sand from the frustration. I finally located one article on a blog post that provided the best instructions as of yet, that I found but only after you finish my story to see how it ends. While the restore disks I received were for Windows 7, it didn’t allow you to select which version of Windows 7.

And it is not a rocket science to find out whether any program or utility contains deleterious material. If you had analysed Rufus and found any please report and share. However, we were unable to run bootsect to make the USB device bootable. Similar help and support threads Thread Forum I'm trying to follow the clean install instructions here, I downloaded my iso from HeiDoc, but when the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool finishes, I see the following: Status: Files copied successfully.

This Acer Aspire One notebook must have some kind of hardware encoded feature that would only allow it to have Windows 7 Starter installed on it. The full version of Windows 7 that the restore disks was attempting to install just would not run. In hindsight now knowing this the restore disks were completely useless to me. So began the route to rebuilding the operating system from scratch and abandoning the restore disks.