How to load programs onto netbook

The Aspire One is a netbook produced by Acer; it does not come equipped with a CD ROM drive, so a traditional hard drive reformat and Windows reinstallation is not possible without a peripheral storage device. An external USB CD or flash drive will suffice, however.Difficulty:Moderate

Instructions

1. • 1 Plug in the external CD drive, then turn on your netbook and let it boot to your operating system.
     
   • 2 Open your web browser and go to the BootDisk website (see link in Resources). Download the Windows XP Fresh Install Bootable CD, then burn these files to a blank CD via your external CD drive.
     
   • 3 Ensure the files have burned to your bootable CD, then restart the netbook with the CD still in the drive.
     
   • 4 The netbook should boot to the CD upon the restart. Follow the instructions prompted for installation. Upon completion you will have a clean installation of Windows XP on your Acer Aspire One.
     

try to format and reinstall windows;; if you dont have cd do a restore system..

The product-key for MS Office (Student) will only work for a student edition of the software, and may not work for a student trial.
For an easy work around you can use "Daemon Tools" which is free software. With this program you can insert your MS Office Disk into another computer (with a CD drive) and essentially burn the disk to a file on your USB drive, and install it from the USB. 1: Download and install Daemon Tools. (Again it's free, do not pay for it) 2: Insert MS Office Student CD into CD ROM drive. 3: Open Daemon Tools. 4: Select "Burn Image From CD". 5: Select destination: USB Thumb Drive. 6: Insert USB drive into Netbook. 7: Open USB Drive. 8: Open Image file; Install Office as usual.
Daemon Tools is free and rather simple to use.

To start the system recovery:

1. Restart the netbook.
2. When the Acer logo appears on the screen, press the Alt and F10 keys repeatedly.
3. If you are prompted with a Microsoft Windows boot screen, press the Enter key.
4. After the system recovery program has loaded, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

If the ability to reinstall from the previous method is not available or fails, recovery of the Operating System will need to be from Recovery Media. In order to recover the system using Acer Recovery Media, an external optical disc drive is required.

1. Restart the netbook.
2. When the Acer logo appears on the screen, press the F2 key repeatedly.
3. Press the Left Arrow key until you've selected Boot.
4. Ensure that the external optical drive is plugged into a USB port.
5. Refer to on screen instructions to set the first device to USB CDROM.
6. Press the CD-ROM drive eject button and insert the disc labeled System CD.
7. Close the CD-ROM tray.
8. Press the F10 key and then the Enter key to save the changes and restart the netbook.
9. The computer will boot from the Acer Recovery Media
10. When prompted for the Recovery CD, remove the System CD and insert the Recovery CD. Note: If there are multiple Recovery CDs, please insert the first Recovery CD.
    
11. After the system recovery program has loaded, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

Note: If you do not have a set of Acer Recovery Media you may purchase recovery media online. If your computer is unable to run the Acer Recovery process, or errors occur during recovery please contact Acer Support.

Select models have the ability to have the operating system reinstalled from a hidden drive built into the computer.

To start the system recovery:

1. Restart the netbook.
2. When the Acer logo appears on the screen, press the Alt and F10 keys repeatedly.
3. If you are prompted with a Microsoft Windows boot screen, press the Enter key.
4. After the system recovery program has loaded, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

If the ability to reinstall from the previous method is not available or fails, recovery of the Operating System will need to be from Recovery Media. In order to recover the system using Acer Recovery Media, an external optical disc drive is required.

1. Restart the netbook.
2. When the Acer logo appears on the screen, press the F2 key repeatedly.
3. Press the Left Arrow key until you've selected Boot.
4. Ensure that the external optical drive is plugged into a USB port.
5. Refer to on screen instructions to set the first device to USB CDROM.
6. Press the CD-ROM drive eject button and insert the disc labeled System CD.
7. Close the CD-ROM tray.
8. Press the F10 key and then the Enter key to save the changes and restart the netbook.
9. The computer will boot from the Acer Recovery Media
10. When prompted for the Recovery CD, remove the System CD and insert the Recovery CD.
    Note: If there are multiple Recovery CDs, please insert the first Recovery CD.
    
    
11. After the system recovery program has loaded, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

Note: If you do not have a set of Acer Recovery Media you may purchase recovery media online. If your computer is unable to run the Acer Recovery process, or errors occur during recovery please contact Acer Support

You will need to have an external CD drive. Netbooks were designed compactly and the price lower to function more as internet devices than computers. The first option you have is to buy an external USB CD Drive (this is the first recommendation I make, you will need it in the future to look at movies, music cd's, etc and its a good investment ) A very good model that allows you to read and more importanty WRITE cd/dvd's is available at bestbuy for 65$ The link to it is http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Velocity+Micro+-+VMdrive+8x+External+USB+2.0+DVD-RW/CD-RW+Drive/9341107.p?id=1218087882490&skuId=9341107&st=USB CD Drive&contract_desc=null

You have a few work arounds that may work, depending on your technical skill If you have a flash drive and another desktop or laptop with CD drive, you can copy the contents of the CD onto the flash drive using Roxio CD copier and creating an image of the disk. You will need to use make data disk and make Image on your flash drive. The drive must be 8 gig in size or larger (Flash drive). YOu will need to then use flash drive in Netbook. Find the drive and setup file and run. If you are reusing the copy and it is still installed on another machine when you validate it will negate both copies assuming your copy is pirated. So you will need to make sure you have it uninstalled on other computer. You can also try connecting the netbook to your desktop/laptop with CD drive via Network cable. If you are using Windows Vista on both machines plugging in teh cable should do a self detect. The netbook should show up as a device in COMPUTER on your old machine. You can then insert the CD and try and change the install location from your old C: drive to the Netbook. The other option you have is to contact Microsoft directly. They can give you (email you a link) to a full downloadable version once they verify you have a valid license. You will just click on this link via your email on netbook and it will download the software directly to your Netbook. Go to this link and under Products section choose Email or Chat with Microsoft agent. Then tell them what you need and provide your license key in the email or chat for verification you have a licensed product. http://support.microsoft.com/gp/ContactDownloads

Select models have the ability to have the operating system reinstalled from a hidden drive built into the netbook. To start the Acer eRecovery:

1. Tap the Alt and F10 keys togther during Power-On Self-Test (POST while the Acer logo is being displayed).
2. When prompted with a boot screen, hit the Enter key.
3. After the Acer eRecovery program has loaded follow the prompts to reinstall the operating system.

If the ability to reinstall from the previous method is not available or fails during the recovery, recovery of the operating system will need to be from Acer Recovery Media. In order to recover the system using Acer Recovery Media an external optical disc drive is required.

1. Press F2 to enter BIOS Setup during Power-On Self-Test (POST while the Acer logo is being displayed).
2. Arrow over to "Boot".
3. Ensure that the external optical drive is plugged into a USB port.
4. Refer to on screen instructions to set the first device to "USB CDROM".
5. Press the CD-ROM drive eject button and insert the System CD.
6. Close the CD-ROM tray.
7. Press "F10", then press "Enter" to save the changes and reboot the system.
8. The netbook will boot from the Acer Recovery Media, follow the prompts to reinstall the operating system.

Please rate!

B_R

Download from the internet
Rip the install cd to a sd card and install that way
Buy an external cd rom to use for installing programs
I hope this helps!

Get an external CD/DVD drive (USB) and run the game from that. (It's probable that you are hitting a copyright lock that needs the original disc.)

Cindy Wells
(if you want a DVD burner, you'll pay extra. Generally, the CD-RW/DVD-ROM drives are fairly cheap now <$50.)

In basic form:

1. Install http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm on PC
2. Put CD into PC
3. Right-click CD drive in My Computer and choose Create Image
4. Save that ISO image somewhere like on USB flash drive and place it on desktop of MSI Wind
5. Install Daemon Tools on MSI
6. Use Daemon Tools to mount the ISO file as a drive and it should install

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