[fairdinato]

You ain't wrong

Cheers for the help by the way, you're defo the best the internet has to offer!

I'll probably have to take my laptop in for repair unfortunately..

wonder if they'll be able to do anything without my XP disk :S

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if your laptop has the COA sticker still on it they will probably be able to use one of their xp disks and your COA to reinstall

[dsenette]

if your laptop has the COA sticker still on it they will probably be able to use one of their xp disks and your COA to reinstall

[fairdinato]

What's the COA sticker? I've got a sticker with all my spec and stuff...!

I'm on the line to acer at the mo.. Been on for so long and am still 16th in the queue!!

[dsenette]

the COA is the certificate of authenticity, it has your windows product key on it...it's usually on the bottom (they're usually green and white)

[fairdinato]

the COA is the certificate of authenticity, it has your windows product key on it...it's usually on the bottom (they're usually green and white)

Yep I do have it.. Maybe a bit of luck eh

[dsenette]

indeed...any word on whether or not your pops found his xp cd?

[fairdinato]

yeah he's just e-mailed me and he doesn't have his XP Cd.. but he knows somebody that may be able to fix it..

Looks like I could be on the first train to uni tomorrow morning ! Which will cost a bomb!

If this happend in term time the university computer department would fix it free of charge! lol

[fairdinato]

Bit of good news.. Just got through to acer and he told me how to do Acer Recover and it's rebooting everything onto my computer (even though it's deleting the C drive)

Luckily all my documents are on the D drive!

I'll let you know how it goes but he made it sound as if it's a hidden tool.. but I'm returning everything to how it was when it came ou the factory

[dsenette]

it is indeed a hidden tool...and a pretty handy one at that...let me know how it comes out

[fairdinato]

i will let you know how it goes..

Good news though so far that my mouse is working! Dunno bout the rest... But Fingers crossed!

Thanks a lot for the help by the way..

[fairdinato]

well I've reinstalled windows.. and it works however I'm back to the original problem of my CD drive not appearing

[dsenette]

double check and make sure all your data is accessable and alive...and we'll start thinking of some options for the cd drive

[fairdinato]

yeah my data is all there (cos it was mostly on my D drive).. Just have no idea why my cd player still isn't working..

I've backed up all the data onto an external hard drive just incase something else happens to it.

[dsenette]

sweet...

right click my computer > manage > device manager > do you see any yellow ? or !

[fairdinato]

Nope, i see nothing.. Not even any cd drives! Says;

Batteries
Computer
disk Drives
Display adapters
IDE....

But no "cd roms" or whatever