beatlebryce Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 My friends Acer 5610 laptop, WinXP, stopped working. It goes to the first loading screen and then a new screen that never was there before shows up. It says stuff about the media failing, and then it says "OS cannot be found". Any ideas??? I don't know what to say, as I dont use laptops, but ask and I will answer. Would it be possible to use a regular WinXP boot disk to salvage it? Just enough to use command prompt, cos there is a recovery partition on it. Please help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAGO Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 It is possible that his hard drive is failing. You should be able to get to the recovery partition on it when you boot - by pressing F10 or something similar. Go ahead and see if you can find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barky Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 some thing similar happened to my acer - turned out to be a faulty so-dimm RAM module turned out to be 128mb down with only 512 to start with .. kept getting a slightly confusing 'hardware error' notice on the secreen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudd Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 On the Acer, press ALT and F10 while the Acer Logo is on. This happens almost immediately after pressed buttons to start. Believe there are other options in F8. I have an Acer 5610Z with Vista and those items above apply. Mudd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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