I need a recovery CD for my Acer Extensa 501dx, and i dont know where to get one (at least cheap enough!) Does anyone know where to get one? Thanx!

Have you tried the Acer site? " IF IT AINT BROKE - LEAVE IT ALONE "

! its broken! why do you think i was asking where to get 1?

By Recovery CD do you mean one that contains the operating system? What makes you want to use one? This Acer support page offers a troubleshooting guide. and this page will show you the correct specifications for that machine. (I thought it as odd that you are stating CPU/RAM as 3.1GB and only 48MB) I suspect it is 233MHz/48Mb. Regards, Bryan

Recovery Cd`s suck :/ ive just had a battle with a fujitsu PCTV which i had to replace the hard drive in . cos i only had a 4,3gb drive spare and its a limited bios i had to use ez-drive, then the recovery sftware threw a fit cos of the non standard bnoot sector. Luckily the first part of the recovery is carried out from floppy so i was able to rewrite the script to ignore the hard drive check and it finally reinstalled win 3.11 then the 95 upgrade. I *HATE* recovery progs like that why they cant just do a ghost image or similar which is what i do with all mysystems when installed, after all we do that at work, d/l an image onto a system then let sysprep run or manually alter details if need be. Woof

There's only one place you're gonna get a recovery cd--and that's the guys who made it. If the machine is old enough you probably can't get one, and it will probably be more money than you wanta pay. I have had SEVERAL older IBM thinkpads, from a 486-33 up to my P-600mhz. For NONE of them have I needed a recovery CD--I just went to the excellant IBM website and downloaded whatever utilities and drivers I needed. Your ONLY other option, if you HAVE to have a recovery cd, is somewhere like eBay that someone might have a used one from a defunct machine.