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How do I reinstall my Acer Aspire One 532h webcam without a disk? I got hit with a really bad virus and had to reformat my hard drive, but I no longer have the service of my webcam and I really want it back. I don't have a disk drive nor a recovery disk, so I would like to know how else I can reinstall my webcam.
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Use the installation disk to reinstall the sofware. If a hidden partition is still present on the hard drive, you may be able to reinstall the OS from it. One of the function keys pressed just after booting will allow to reinstall the OS from the hidden partition. Read your computer's manual to find out which key initiates the restoration of the system.
Try this method it may work. If you can boot up with the external USB hard drive on your Acer, then use a working computer and copy the Windows installation CD onto the external hard disk then connect the USB externak hard disk to the USB port on your Acer and boot up using the external hard drive.
when you turn the unit on hit Alt+F10. This will access the acer recovery partition from which you can restore. This is provided you didn't replace the Hard drive or wiped the drive yourself
I was having an issue with using my webcam on my Acer Aspire 6930. I came to this site to try and find a way to solve my problem. I was reading posting from people saying to reformat my hard drive, uninstall the webcam and then reinstall it, etc. I then remembered that I had an issue a few years ago using a webcam on my other computer (which was not a laptop). I figured out that the issue was I had a gmail account and used 'video chat'. This makes it unpossible to use with other applications. I would suggest that you disable your video chat before the 'uninstall/reinstall' process!!! :)
Reformatting will wipe the drive clean and you will need to reinstall windows, either from the rescue CD or from other media. You may be able to contact Acer and order a replacement CD and install it using the OEM license originally sold with your machine.
If it is merely a problem that programs are not running correctly or that something has corrupted the computer, see if there is a good restore point that you can use from "System Restore." This may allow you to fix the problem and remove the offending program without having to go through the trouble of reformatting and finding the replacement disk.
Finally, since you say that it is Vista, it should be a relatively new machine and it may have a restore partition instead of a rescue disk. If this is the case, there should be a utility in your programs from acer that will allow you to restore the computer to its original form. This will typically reboot the computer and handle the format / reinstall for you. It's possible your friend can't find the disk because he didn't have one.
Just a heads up, typically you can not use a rescue disk from another machine (different make or model) as it will check the hardware configuration before installing the software to make sure it matches the machine the disk shipped with. It is not serial number specific though.
1. Disconnect your CD/DVD
2. Uninstall magic iso
3. Use a good anti-virus and scan all your hard drives.
Reconnect your CD/DVD. Verify if it works.
4.If not, right-clic "My computer", manage, select disk manager, assign a different drive letter to all drives but C:. Reboot. Verify.
5. Lastly, make a backup, reformat all your drives, reinstall Windows.
reboot you machine after cancelling all the installation set up details
Follow the instructions that follow as if you are installing Xp afresh (install, Accept terms,) then choose drive to install XP on (the one with current XP or else others) press delete (D) and follow the instruction to accept
After deleting choose Install XP and chose to format your disk the way you want Fast/Slow to FAT/NTFS
Please note formatting is deleting everything (EVERYTHING) on that disk preparing to store new information as a blank HDD i.e. you will lose everything on the disk viruses, bad stuff and all your valuable data on it
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