John wrote:
>You needed to have the SATA drivers available on a floppy and install them
>using the "F6" option when it is offered....Check the Acer site to see if
>they have SATA drivers available for this system.>>
I did that, and downloaded them to a floppy as instructed by F6. Went to
install them and discovered this computer doesn't have a floppy drive, as
seems usual these days. Duh!!! Acer have to be joking!
Tried hooking up a floppy via a spare IDE connection, but the computer
wouldn't recognise it. Duh again! Up creek, no paddles.
<<I probably would have written zeroes to the drive using the
manufacturer's utility or Boot N Nuke, in order to be sure there was no
boot sector virus present.>>
This also in line with Rick's suggestions. I've got a boot-nuke somewhere,
tho I've never used it. Might try it out and see what happens. The guy's
been using Limewire, so a boot virus is a distinct possibility. However,
after a full reformat I checked the free disk size, and there seems nothing
on it, so I was assuming that the format would have nuked the MBR. Maybe
not----I've no idea how much space MBR takes on the disk, prolly not much,
so it might not show.
Thx to everyone who has offered help on this, I now have a few more options
to try out. This BIOS seems to offer very few options. To make matters
worse, the HD options I want to get to (SATA, AHCI) are greyed out and
seemingly inaccessible.
Now I know where all the Court Jesters of olden times are---they're either
working for Acer, or working for Microsoft gleefully writing error and stop
messages!
Maybe ought to just retire to the beach.
Don Penlington
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