I tried the boot from last known working but still no luck, and I cannot use the XP repair disc as there isn't one.
I found the discs I created when I first bought the lappy, but it will only wipe and start again so I am copying what I can to an external drive.
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Originally Posted by v0id
Yes, you press Alt+F10 at the 'Acer' boot screen ...that is unless they've deleted the recovery partition to reclaim disk space, or (as it's a 4 year old laptop model) upgraded to Vista/Windows 7 which would have merged the 'hidden' partitions into the primary one.
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Will try this when I've finished copying data, I have the Vista P:remium upgrade which came free but never installed it.
If I have to restart should I upgrade to vista?
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Alt F10 had no repair option so I'm doing a factory reset.