Hello i hope some1 can help me with my linpus linux recovery problem, I cannot seem to create a usb-recovery using acers recovery disk on a windows computer , i do not have a optical disk drive , i have two (2gig)usb sticks that the recovery program recognizes and a portable (60gig)hard drive , the problem is that when the recovery process gets to 81% it fails saying ("error the program cannot continue") i have tried on all of my drives and it's the same , i cannot understand why i have formated them to fat32 , changed where they are plugged in , tried 3 different computers , phoned acer support and got sent a new recovery disk yesterdsay (that also fails at 81%) the strange thing is that a month ago i created the usb-recovery on one of my usb sticks but i deleted it thinking that i had the disk so i could just create another one :oops: , i cant use my aspire one at all as i have some how removed the xfdesktop and cant even get a terminal up any help would be realy appreciated [img]http://smilies.sofrayt.com/fsc/praying.gif[/img] [img]http://sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/674/674953ulnnugdq1c.gif[/img]