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Unable to change bios boot up order on Aspire M3201

leeper1974

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Apr 16, 2012
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Apologies if I've posted this in the wrong place.

I've an old Aspire One Netbook that I'm trying to repair by creating a boot USB from the Recovery CD. In order to do this I'm using my own Acer M3201 PC to prepare it.

When I boot the PC I've 2 options - Del - takes me to Settings - F12 to Bios. When I go into the latter I can change the order so It'll boot from the DVD (with the dvd recovery disk) but then it fails and I get a 'Windows recovery error' then it just boots normally.


Can anyone help??