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Shut down your Acer Aspire if it is running. Once the computer is off, press the power button to start it. Press "F2" immediately while your computer is booting up and displaying the "Acer" logo. Keep pressing "F2" until the BIOS Setup screen appears.
1st. How many hard disk have u on your computer?
2nd is it booting from the correct one?
Identify your boot drive a choose THAT hard disk in the BIOS.
If U don't know how to get into BIOS setup read your PC manual
That what it is for....
And What does shows nothing means?
Black screen with cursor?
Dead Monitor?
Please stated your problem clearly
That error shows up when Windows find an irreversible error on the Hard Disk Drive.
I'm sorry to say that the only solution is to change the Hard Disk Drive.
press F12 at boot time and select to boot the Diagnostics, in there let it run through the diagnostics and see if you get any error codes.
If this is clean then try booting windows into safe mode by pressing F8 as the computer boots up, then select to boot into Safe mode with command prompt and at the command prompt type chkdsk /r let it finish and try booting your system again.
also make sure you are booting the CD by pressing the F12 key at bootup and select the CD/DVD drive as the boot source. You may be inserting a non bootable CD and it just attempts to load the hard disk after. You can tell if this is happening if the CD light is not flickering but the hard disk light is. hard disk light looks like a cylinder on most laptops.
there should be somthing that tells you to press f12 or f2 to set up i believe your machine is not booting the hard disk first once you get to the boot menue you can change this setting
I think low level formatting should do the trick. you can download it and its free. In your case try to download the DOS based version. This type of formatting erases the entire disk clean.
First, see if you can't boot to the F12 menu and run diagnostcs on the hard drive. (At Dell screen press F12, then use arrow keys to select diagnostics) if the hard drive fails diagnostics, yhou are done, and will need to replace the hard drive. If under warranty call Dell for a replacement, if not, then buy a replacment.
If the hard drive passes diagnostics, then boot to the XP CD, press R to enter recovery console when prompted, once at a C:\windows prompt, type the command CHKDSK /R and then let the too run. Once it finishes, try booting to windows again.
If that fails to get you into Windows, then your next step is a repair resintall by booting to the XP CD, and select the installation option to repair previous installation.
It is possible that your hard disk has some damaged files to allow booting. You will need a bootable CD to make it work, at least up to displaying the MS-DOS prompt. If the MS-DOS prompt shows (e.g. c: ) where you can see a blinking horizontal line, depending on what OS you use, you may type "scandisk" or "chkdsk" to let the software repair the problem. You may then reboot and see if it works.
Another option is to clear the CMOS (refer to your mainboard manual on how to do it). Usually, this is located near your mainboard battery.
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