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Acer veriton hd prob
Name: redman361 Date: February 16, 2006 at 05:28:02 Pacific OS: any CPU/Ram: 256mb celeron 900mhz Product: Acer
Comment:
I have just got hold of a few Acer Veriton 3200's I started out by repartitioning the first one to load xp. Big mistake, it has made the HD unreadable, it comes up "error reading hard disk" when i try to run fdisk. I have tried the HD in another machine no problem and another HD in the Acer but no go. There appears to be a hidden small partition the Acer requires on the partition that i have inadvertently removed, I have used debug to completely clear the data and partitions but still no go, Anyone have any suggestions???
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