Does Acer provide a recovery disk ? If not are drivers for the hardware hard to find?
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Here is what someone on newegg.com said about the drivers: "Other Thoughts: If your accustom to reinstalling windows, booting from a flash thumb drive is a bit more tricky then a CD. There's plenty of advice and step-by-steps out there. Acer made a hidden driver folder under the C:\ if you unhide all your folder view options and want to reinstall windows I recommend you backup that "Acer" driver directory, it contains the Sata hdd drivers which are really hard to find on the web since this is a new machine."
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The best way to have a recover disc on this netbook is to make an image copy of the hdd with some sort of image backup software. Asus does not provide any recovery disc with this netbook as I understand it.
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Here is what someone on newegg.com said about the drivers:"Other Thoughts: If your accustom to reinstalling windows, booting from a flash thumb drive is a bit more tricky then a CD. There's plenty of advice and step-by-steps out there. Acer made a hidden driver folder under the C:\ if you unhide all your folder view options and want to reinstall windows I recommend you backup that "Acer" driver directory, it contains the Sata hdd drivers which are really hard to find on the web since this is a new machine."
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Sure, that's exactly what happened to my Acer netbook. Completely dead so I bought the Sanoxy hard drive enclosure, extracted the hard drive from the old dead netbook and transfered files and photos to my new Asus netbook. Quick and easy.
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This happened twice with my daughter's Acer.. Luckily my wife was able to bring it to work and one of the computer techs there were able to run a password crack program on it and reset the password for us... So it is possible, you just need to find someone who can..Best of luck.. :-)
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Ohh, interesting. Thanks for the quick reply! I think I can likely deal because the price sure is right. I wonder if anyone more experienced in this area knows if Apple (or Acer) is fairly reliable about getting proper drivers out?
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It does not provide you recovery DVD but I managed to do it within 3 hours. If you are going to add Samsung SSD, it will be very easy as I did since it gives you migration CD. So all you need to do it, insert their CD that comes with SSD, install the wizard, and migrate all of data from your HDD to SSD, which takes about 10~20 minutes. Then, all I did was resetting (quick format from Windows 8.1) the laptop, and my laptop flies now. If you are going to use other SSD, check http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?37714-G750JW-adding-a-SSD , or google "asus rog SSD installation" and there are plenty of threads available to assist you. Since it pasts a week so you might have done it already, but hope this helped you and enjoy your laptop!
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Yes you can. I did a upgrade install of 7 ultimate and had no problems with the drivers or included software. With a clean install, Windows 7 should find most of the drivers you need. Any others you should be able to get on Acer's website.
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Sorry, but I don't remember what kind of Acer I used to have. I replaced my Acer 6 months ago.
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Please contact acer support. http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/service-contact
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It (AOD150-1165) did not come with Recovery Disk but it can generate the recovery CDs (or DVDs) for you using the installed utility.You will need a USB attached CD/DVD writer and some recordable media (6 CD-Rs for System Recovery + 2 for Apps and Drivers, OR alternatively 2 DVD-R for Recovery + 1 DVD-R for Apps and Drivers)
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I'm going to assume a replacement for the hard disk is what your looking for... I would say yes but after having this particular computer myself for barely a month and having the ethernet fail after only two weeks, I couldn't recommend spending any further money on it. Acer has become worse than the old Packard Bell in the quality arena. And the support people are pretty useless. Use it until it dies and buy something else made by almost anyone else. Forget Acer!
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I did a lot of research when I decided to repair that little net book and I found most of my answers on Youtube. There are quite a few how to videos for Acer laptops hosted by.....(drum roll please)......the Acer guy. Yep. Give it a try, I've fixed three laptops so far. Hope this helps.
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Now days laptop does not come with recovery disks,as the recovery system is in built in the system,thanksNick
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I have the same model Acer Aspire One (except mine has 2GB ram) running Win 7 Home Prem. I just got the Samsung drive you mentioned and have watched part of a movie and am now burning recovery disks. So far, everything is working fine. The directions for the drive indicate the need to use both usb plugs on the cable provided. I'm doing that. Some reviewers have experience to suggest that such isn't always required. So, in a word, the drive is compatible.
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If the support does not agree to send the recovery CD's free you can purchase a set from them for $20 at:https://secure.tx.acer.com/RCDB/Main.aspx?brand=acer
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I don't know, because I do not have an Acer. Sorry, I cannot help. God bless.