Originally Posted by slawecki
Got a new Acer desktop at a Circuit city give away special.(computer is $700, buy the package with this 19" flat screen moniter, and the package is $600???)
Played with it for a couple of days, never got around to creating the recovery disks.(what, me worry??). Had 3 power surges (not interupts)on Sat that blew threw the Tripp lite surge/backup protection system.
The HD (serial AT, 2x 200 gig partitions) will not boot to anything, refuses chkdsk, and wants reformat. I presume lots of up front damage to HD.
Options:
will Acer accept this as a waranty even though this is not an acer materials failure? if they will and reload, I just mail the machine to them.
I have win xp, and other hard drives, so I can reformat and load xp on the drive. How do I then transfer the Acer provided XP, and their programs and drivers to the HD, since I did not make those all important backup image dvd's?
Depending on how many days you have owned it and where you purchased it, I would return it to the place I bought it from and tell them it was defective.
Seems really strange to have major issues like you describe, the computer could be a lemon.
Good luck!