<div class="gmail_quote">Edited for brevity.<br><br>On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Preston Boyington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preston.lists@gmail.com">preston.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>I hadn't heard of this and fortunately haven't had that problem. That<br>
would SUCK to be on a trip and have to do this.<br>
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I suppose I will need to set up a USB drive in case this were to happen<br>
to me.<br>
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Any caveats I should be forewarned about?<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>It's relatively easy. I follow the procedure outlined here:<br><a href="http://www.qrpcw.com/2009/01/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html">http://www.qrpcw.com/2009/01/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html</a><br>
<br>Other use Unetbootin on the disk image. I have my USB drives set up a certain way, so I don't like to do it that way (though props for existence of this method).<br><br>The big thing is not to panic when you power it on some day and see nothing on the display. Having the drive prepped and maybe with a reminder of the keystrokes on a label produced by your favorite label maker will make it a smooth process. I think the last time took me 3 minutes. Not too painful, just inconvenient.<br>
<br>bnm<br>---<br>I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath.<br>