Cannot make USB recovery drive - it freezes on main PC!

Hello there,

Can any one help me here? I'm trying to recover my One as I've been victim to the dreaded "HAL initialization failed" bug. However, when I start the DVD on my main PC, then select the "Make Recovery Drive" button with my stick in, it just freezes! I don't get to select my drive like the manual assures me I can do. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Is there an ISO or something similar I can just stick on my stick?

Much help greatly appreciated! (I get my One last week and I've already broken it! )

Kevin.

 

Mine also does this. don't know what the issue is. Now my aspire one just goes to a black screen every time it starts up, it's ridiculous. pc world said i needed to reinstall it, and to do that i'd need to pay a million pounds for a dvd drive.

 

I had the same problem... the recovery CD seems very fussy about which USB Flash drives it will work with! I have two Jetflash drives, and neither will work. I also have a couple of older "generic" drives which the installer recognised, unfortunately they aren't big enough.

I gave up and borrowed an external DVD drive and installed XP instead

 

I too have the black screen of death and my windows xp wont let me select were i want the recovery disc to goto,it just freezes.
Iam new to linux and i am not amused
There has got to be some way of getting this onto my usb i tried downloading the recovery and sat for 45 mins and all i got on my usb after i waited until 100% 524k.
someone pllllleeeeaaassseee help

 

I've suffered this too, and this was my solution:

http://dailycupoftech.com/2008/09/02/di ... sb-device/

Cheers
Ramsey