Acer Netbook ghosting problem

[thor2077]

I am currently trying to use a boot floopy to perform a ghost of an Acer Aspire One netbook. The problem i face is it requires a dos driver. I have contacted Acer and they tell me there is non to be found.

Does anyone have any ideas? i have tried a bunch of "gneric" drivers to no avail.


Anything at all would be helpful.

[14049752]

Please be more specific. What's not working?

[thor2077]

I am in need of a DOS driver (NDIS2 or Packet) for an Acser Aspire One netbook so i can use it to create a boot floppy for Symantec Ghost. i have tried the drivers that they supply and it just gives me an "unable to bind" error.

Does anyone have any exseperience using an imaging product on an Acer Netbook?

[NYJimbo]

You could remove the drive and clone it on another machine, right ?

[thor2077]

We have considered removing the drive as a possibility, and went as far as trying to pull out the hard drive. We then ran into problems in that as well. the Netbook is nto what i would call friendly for field repairs. It really is nto a great solution but we might use it when all other options are exhausted.

[anonymous Mac Tech]

We have considered removing the drive as a possibility, and went as far as trying to pull out the hard drive. We then ran into problems in that as well. the Netbook is nto what i would call friendly for field repairs. It really is nto a great solution but we might use it when all other options are exhausted.


Perhaps there is a local repair shop in the area that could easily do it for you. It can't imagine a pro would charge you much to image the drive compared to the cost of destroying the machine if you don't know how to remove the hard drive.

[thor2077]

I know its a basic task, i do it all the time. What i havnt done is make it work with an incompatible driver. None of the drivers i have been able to locate are compatible with DOS. I contacted Acer and they told me that they do not have a driver that would work in DOS.

Any other ideas?

[NYJimbo]

The Acer Aspire One can boot off a USB, did you check out the possbility of putting the program there ?

[anonymous Mac Tech]

I know its a basic task, i do it all the time. What i havnt done is make it work with an incompatible driver. None of the drivers i have been able to locate are compatible with DOS. I contacted Acer and they told me that they do not have a driver that would work in DOS.

Any other ideas?

Removing the HD seems like the path of least resistance to me. Most of the time I have better luck with drive out of the machine for a variety of reasons. Seeing as there is a perfectly viable solution (removing HD) which you seem to be terribly resistant to following, for me at least there is no point to this thread.

[NYJimbo]

Seeing as there is a perfectly viable solution (removing HD) which you seem to be terribly resistant to following, for me at least there is no point to this thread.

Ouch, dude. :p

[AtYourService]

connect to network cable,insert bootable usb linux, backup image to server, done.

[Kenhelms]

acer did a good job at tucking it away in there.

just incase you want to, here is a video

http://www.liliputing.com/2008/08/how-to-replace-the-acer-aspire-one-ssd-with-a-hard-drive.html