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[playstephen24]

hope this aint gonna be a habbit asking the experts on here 4 help lol my mom has got a acer aspire one notebook and lost the operating system that was on there thanks 2 a donut at the computer shop so he put xp on here formating the whole hard drive deleted the back-up system on there i was wondering does any1 know what operating system which is meant 2 be on this ive spoken 2 acer and they say just do a reboot off the hard drive which aint there anymore and was wondering if any1 knows where i can download it from and format the shitty job he done thanks for ur help all

[todd1970]

From what i can see , all the Acer Aspire one netbooks should have Windows 7 starter edition on them , unless its a fairly old model.

If it is fairly old XP would be fine on it , even if it was a newer one XP would run perfectly ok on it.

Has he deleted all the partitions on the HD and made it the 1 C drive , when you buy a machine with the OS already installed it should have a recovery partition on the drive , usually A:/Recovery .

If he has deleted this then that is a poor show..you can check this by going into disk managment , right click my computer > manage > under storage , you will see disk managment.

[playstephen24]

yea he has deleted it because when u boot up if u hold down the L button it should got 2 a option to reset to manafacture setings but it dont. it is a old notebook 2008 its now good wiv xp on it its slow and keeps crashing my mom love the old os that came wiv it because she found it easly and she loved the games on there

[todd1970]

Hmmm , may have been Vista that was on it then or poss Win7 , if you can find out the exact model number you should be able to check it.

With Acer machines sometimes the hardware they put in thier machines can cause driver issues and BSODS when a different OS is installed , i know this through experience.

[playstephen24]

i know it wasnt a windows os it was something else

[todd1970]

Linux ?

[playstephen24]

i think it was the old Linpus Linux Lite not sure

[playstephen24]

if it is that where can i get the full version and will it take the xp off

[d0uga1]

google with the word "torrent" after linux that should find you a version but youll need a bittorrent program to download the files with just google "bittorrent" for that

[todd1970]

http://www.linpus.com/downloads.html

Hope this helps , GL

[playstephen24]

thanks u 2 i will try this l8r

[todd1970]

google with the word "torrent" after linux that should find you a version but youll need a bittorrent program to download the files with just google "bittorrent" for that

Yeah torrents usually are the way to go with things like this .. but if you get into downloading torrents .. its a whole new world your opening up.

It took me weeks to suss out how to use them properly , ermmm so a mate told me..not that id do anything illegal you understand.

Because linux is open source and free to download and use , i thought a direct download link would be better.

[playstephen24]

found out which 1 it is. its linpus lite v1.0.3 but ive tried torrents and found the site u gave me todd but it doesnt install it in full only part and uses xp 2 run i want 2 remove xp and just have linpus only

[Marty]

Sounds like you need to download this: http://www.linpus.co...ds_1.6_ISO.html

[cashbox1]

lol ive just sold one of these, it was designed for xp sp3,but with a bit of added ram,it ran sweetly with 7 home premium if you need the said OS,drop me a pm

bry

[playstephen24]

thanks cash box but it has got xp already on it and it runs crap ive tried the os's from the lunpus site and it just comes up disk error

[playstephen24]

managed 2 do it there was a error on the site it sed burn the disc as a data cd but was it was meant 2 say is burn as a iso image

[todd1970]

managed 2 do it there was a error on the site it sed burn the disc as a data cd but was it was meant 2 say is burn as a iso image

Hope it wasnt this one....

http://www.bbc.co.uk...nology-17381214

[playstephen24]

its not but close enuff

[maverickuk1]

im sure its win xp pro 32 bit on them as my mate has one