Recovery CD Error, Lost Windows

[yerxa]

Hello,

I turned on my Acer Travelmate 240 today and recieved the following onscreen:

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Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

For Realtek RTL8129(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROMT.
Operating System not found.

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Ok, so after much decision making I decide there is nothing no my computer I can't afford to lose so I get out the Recovery CDs that came with the computer.

I follow the instructions onscreen, and while trying to run Recovery CD 1 I get the following error:

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Error #88
Unable to find the drive specified

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I no i didn't specify a drive so I assume the computer did.  I decide to check the Acer website for Error #88 only to find out that they don't keep a record of Errors.  I go to email them and learn that emails will only be answered Monday through Friday.

After all this, my laptop still does not work.  Can anyone help me?

[Justin W]

it will work.
This happened with my presario....lol as amazing as it is
what i did is i put the operating system into the drive. then booted up
i reformated my computer
re installed windows
took my driver recovery disk and used it and got the drivers back for the wirelesss netowrk adapter (integrated) and also the side volume controlers
If you really need to you can use the application recovery to recover applications
i wouldnt use it because it may bring spyware/adware/viruses back
Have fun and i hope that this works for you

[yerxa]

Ok, I found a copy of Windows XP Home (It didn't come with the laptop, the laptop's copy is on the Recovery CDs, it had Pro).  I tried to install it and got the message:

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Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer.

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This isn't looking good.  Any help?

[viking]

It is possible to solve the problem simply unpluging data cable from hdd and plug it back... It happened to me a few times, but on desktop computers. Sometimes I needed to install the Operating System again, but ussually, no...