Barking up the wrong tree...
Guys Hi...
Ive just been talking to my wife who lives in the UK about my computer problem and during the course of the conversation she made the comment "By the way, have you seen anything of the recovery discs for my Netbook... my Acer Aspire 1, XP driven, Netbook..."
It seems when she bought it, in England, the guys at the shop asked her what OS she wanted on it when she said XP the guys installed it for her and handed her two shop produced recovery DVD's marked in felt tip pen "Recovery Disc 1" and "Recovery Disc 2" They told her that in order to use them she would have to buy an external DVD drive because the Aspire Netbook doesn't have a built-in DVD drive.
I had completely forgotten about her netbook... it would appear that the disc I have been using is probably the one for her Netbook, her XP netbook... so it's no wonder my machine keeps asking for the 'correct' image disc. There is another clue which she pointed out to me... "a recovery disc produced in Spain by a Spanish retailer, would not have 'Recovery Disc' written on it in English..."
It seems I have been barking up the wrong tree... so forget any reference to me having recovery discs for the darn tower... I haven't...
I am waiting to hear back from Acer-Europe about the availability of the correct recovery discs for a Vista driven Aspire M1600.
Acer USA, at acer.com says that the discs are not available for the SNID number I quoted, but its highly probable that the M1600 wasn't sold in the USA.
I will not do anything else to try to recover the situation, until I hear back from them. It would be a great pity to lose all of the programs and files on the computer by doing a disc free restoration to the manufacturers default condition. It might well be that I have to do this, but if if Acer-Europe can supply the discs I might be able to save them...
Just take me outside and shoot me...!
pp