Hi frns...I am new to this site....first i wann say hello to everyone here....now lets talk abt my problem...i have acer aspire one 522 with 1gb ram and amd dual core processor c-50 (1.0 ghz) last nite i got an error while starting up windows ...it says segra is compressed press ctrl-alt-del to restart but when i do it shows me again the same msg..it doesnt have dvd rom so please help me out solve this problem....thnx in advance
Does it give you a full report or just that one message?
nothing else my frnd....just that msg...i have already change the boot setup to usb drive as it doesnt have dvd drive...i tried to reinstall windows via usb but invain..
I believe you will have to have a DVD/CD drive in order to reinstall the OS. Sorry friend, I cannot help you much.
bt my frnd i already changed this window from starter to ultimate via usb when i visited india...n i dnt have option for dvd drive...
hi praveen...i copied windows files from dvd to usb in another pc...bt wen i try to boot from usb it takes me to that msg again ..n can u pls tell me d exact procedure to make bootable usb
you might find this helpful Install Windows 7 from USB Pen Drive/External Hard Disk Using Grub4Dos
or this
How to create bootable Windows 7, vista or XP
but you need another laptop/desktop in order to do it since you cant boot on your laptop.
Install Windows 7/Vista using bootable USB guide
And also, you can refer install Windows 7 on Acer Aspire One guide
Coming back to bootable USB guide, here we assume that you are using either Vista or Windows 7 to create a bootable USB.
1. Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system and backup all the data from the USB as we are going to format the USB to make it as bootable.
2. Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this, type in CMD in Start menu search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start > All programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.
3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:
DISKPART and hit enter.
LIST DISK and hit enter.
Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.
4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do.
SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN
EXIT
see this tutorial for the purpose
Partition - Mark as Active
after this copy the "extracted files" of windows to usb
then try booting the laptop from pen drive
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