trying to factory restore acer aspire one d255 but....

mjf said:

From your earlier post you indicated that you gave up at ~an hour. If you now say you've given the restore hours to complete without success then that's different.
Assuming the Netbook is out of warrant, Darryl's suggestion regarding the HDD is worth trying.
Are you going to order Acer recovery disks?

actually it was about two hours, and the little light green spark that runs through the green progress bar stopped once it tryed to install factory mode. also the hdd indicator doesn't flash as often when installing factory mode, it flashes like every 10-20 mins maybe

gregrocker said:

You reported that Quick test failed with a read error but Extended test passed. This seems to indicate that Quick repaired the Read error. Run Extended again to be sure, then Disk Check from Command Line if necessary.

The HD Diagnostics test is also a Repair which can return HD to service in conjunction with Disk Check clearing file system errors.

MucAfee is cause of so many random problems seen here that I would not be surprised if it is blocking running Factory Recovery, so either try running it from Disk or find the Win7 Installation DVD to get rid of all the bloatware and have a clean Win7 install. Steps in Perfect Reinstall link in my siggy below.

acutally i did another restore after the hdd test, and failed again, well not failed but again, refused to install factory mode. also i don't have a disc drive, since this is a netbook. my processor is running at 1.50ghz

kooisk8er111 said:

-03 smart read error.

theog said:

WD -03 smart read error.
WD Support / Knowledge Base / Diagnostic Error Codes

S.M.A.R.T. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Can you find a Win7 installation DVD to write to flash stick, boot it and clean reinstall Win7?

Steps to get a perfect reinstall are in my signature box below, including the app to write Win7 ISO file to stick.

gregrocker said:

MucAfee is cause of so many random problems seen here that I would not be surprised if it is blocking running Factory Recovery, so either try running it from Disk or find the Win7 Installation DVD to get rid of all the bloatware and have a clean Win7 install. Steps in Perfect Reinstall link in my siggy below.

Unless McAfee itself is genuine malware, which it clearly isn't, I don't see how this is technically possible especially when run from alt F10 at boot.
BTW I don't like or use McAfee.

mjf said:

gregrocker said:

MucAfee is cause of so many random problems seen here that I would not be surprised if it is blocking running Factory Recovery, so either try running it from Disk or find the Win7 Installation DVD to get rid of all the bloatware and have a clean Win7 install. Steps in Perfect Reinstall link in my siggy below.

Unless McAfee itself is genuine malware, which it clearly isn't, I don't see how this is technically possible especially when run from alt F10 at boot.
BTW I don't like or use McAfee.

I downloaded ms security essentials

koolsk8ter111 said:

mjf said:

gregrocker said:

MucAfee is cause of so many random problems seen here that I would not be surprised if it is blocking running Factory Recovery, so either try running it from Disk or find the Win7 Installation DVD to get rid of all the bloatware and have a clean Win7 install. Steps in Perfect Reinstall link in my siggy below.

Unless McAfee itself is genuine malware, which it clearly isn't, I don't see how this is technically possible especially when run from alt F10 at boot.
BTW I don't like or use McAfee.

I downloaded ms security essentials

theog said:

kooisk8er111 said:

-03 smart read error.

theog said:

WD -03 smart read error.
WD Support / Knowledge Base / Diagnostic Error Codes

S.M.A.R.T. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

You need to repkace the HD Drive.

Someone whose been around the traps awhile is passionate about your need to replace your HDD. I'd be listening - the last thing is to get things set up on a dud drive. They don't cost much.

mjf said:

Someone whose been around the traps awhile is passionate about your need to replace your HDD. I'd be listening - the last thing is to get things set up on a dud drive. They don't cost much.

I think there is another issue that is causing my factory restore problem. in the erecovery managment properties, I had my settings on compatibility for windows XP service pack 3

koolsk8ter111 said:

mjf said:

Someone whose been around the traps awhile is passionate about your need to replace your HDD. I'd be listening - the last thing is to get things set up on a dud drive. They don't cost much.

I think there is another issue that is causing my factory restore problem. in the erecovery managment properties, I had my settings on compatibility for windows XP service pack 3

theog said:

koolsk8ter111 said:

mjf said:

Unless McAfee itself is genuine malware, which it clearly isn't, I don't see how this is technically possible especially when run from alt F10 at boot.
BTW I don't like or use McAfee.

I downloaded ms security essentials

theog said:

theog said:

WD -03 smart read error.
WD Support / Knowledge Base / Diagnostic Error Codes

S.M.A.R.T. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

You need to repkace the HD Drive.

You have a hardware problem, not a software problem.