I have acer one netbook, no disk drive. I installed Win 8, and don't like it. I cannot get back Win 7 starter & factory settings. Where can I download Win 7 starter? I have an Acer aspire one, the MBR broke when I screwed up a dual boot and thought I got a virus. Windows 7 Forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for Microsoft Windows 7 Computers such as Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a. Download Sister Hazel Somewhere More Familiar Rar more.

OK, so I really can't stand Windows 7 starter edition, which came preinstalled on my Acer netbook AOD257. And I don't feel like paying 85.00 for an upgrade to Home Premium just yet. So I wiped the hard drive and installed a legal copy of XP pro.

The installation seemed to go perfectly, but after it finished, the computer just rebooted over and over. Could this be a hardware problem with the Acer? Is it possible that it's physically (i.e. Android Emulator For Pc 1gb Ram. Hardware) impossible to run XP on it? Acer tech support is useless.

They just repeat that it is not their policy to recommend changing or downgrading the OEM operating system. OK, so I really can't stand Windows 7 starter edition, which came preinstalled on my Acer netbook AOD257.

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Hardware) impossible to run XP on it? Acer tech support is useless. They just repeat that it is not their policy to recommend changing or downgrading the OEM operating system.

OK, so I really can't stand Windows 7 starter edition, which came preinstalled on my Acer netbook AOD257. And I don't feel like paying 85.00 for an upgrade to Home Premium just yet. So I wiped the hard drive and installed a legal copy of XP pro. The installation seemed to go perfectly, but after it finished, the computer just rebooted over and over. Could this be a hardware problem with the Acer?

Is it possible that it's physically (i.e. Hardware) impossible to run XP on it? Acer tech support is useless. They just repeat that it is not their policy to recommend changing or downgrading the OEM operating system. OK, so I really can't stand Windows 7 starter edition, which came preinstalled on my Acer netbook AOD257.

And I don't feel like paying 85.00 for an upgrade to Home Premium just yet. So I wiped the hard drive and installed a legal copy of XP pro. The installation seemed to go perfectly, but after it finished, the computer just rebooted over and over.

Could this be a hardware problem with the Acer? Is it possible that it's physically (i.e. Hardware) impossible to run XP on it? Acer tech support is useless. They just repeat that it is not their policy to recommend changing or downgrading the OEM operating system. Click to expand.Are you getting an 'Inaccessible Boot Volume' error?

Windows XP doesn't have an AHCI driver, and if your disk interface is set that way, you may need to press F6 and offer a driver for the disk interface. Normally, when WinXP reboots over and over again, you'd want the 'Automatically Restart' option to be unticked. As then, the Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) information sits still on the screen and you can write it down. In your situation, that may be hard to set up. You can try starting in Safe Mode, via pressing F8, but I don't know if that will escape a disk driver issue.

******* The AOD257 uses dual core N570 and NM10 chipset with two SATA ports. From the spec sheet for NM10: 'The SATA controller contains two modes of operation - a legacy mode using I/O space, and an AHCI mode using memory space'. On my Acer laptop, the *only* setting in the BIOS, is to enable or disable AHCI. If such a setting is available, I would disable AHCI and try WinXP again. The SATA ports would then run in legacy mode, and any SATA disks would look like 'they were on a ribbon cable' to the OS.