
Then remove all the small screws on the bottom cover. Yep, that's what I'd do since your bios and your bootstick don't seem to be detecting the hard drive. Re-seating it is a fairly simple job on most Aspire Ones. But the only thing I could find about getting to the hard drive on the D257 is a bit over my head.> >I even heard about taking out the hard drive and putting it back in. Well once again any help will be more then welcomed.Ray But the only thing I could find about getting to the hard drive on the D257 is a bit over my head. I even heard about taking out the hard drive and putting it back in. It just that it lets me get just so close and I am hoping that it's something I can fix. Because sometimes you might get a few different ways of doing something on the internet.

I made it bootable by checking with a couple of web sites just to make sure that it was done right. Do you think the flash drive is not a good way to recover a system. But as you know the note book doesn't have a cd player. I don't know if this means anything or not, but on my desk tops if I ever had a problem with boot up I used the recovery cd's. Now on the note book I am having troubles with it says HDD Model Name : NONE and it says the same thing for the HDD Serial Number. On my good note book it says, after I hit f-2 on start up- HDD Model Name : WDC WD3200BPVT-22JJ5T0 Then it says HDD Serial Number. Yes I tried the ALT-f-10 trick for lack of a better word. We can then work on fixing your installation.Thanks for the reply. Let me know what you want to do, and I'll help you get your data off your computer if you'd like. You can purchase a cheap drive off of amazon for anywhere between $10-$30. You choose what you want to do, but I guarantee you that purchasing a CD drive is cheaper then taking it somewhere to have it backed up. You could also install an operating system onto a flash drive and run it from there if you don't want to purchase a CD drive, but this is a lot more complicated. You could then copy all of the files that you want onto a flash drive or external hard drive from there. This will then allow you to use a windows CD to repair your installation, or you can actually burn a free operating system onto a CD and run your computer from that. Either you purchase a CD drive that you can plug into a USB port.


When you have a netbook that is messing up and you can't get the windows to boot or the repair partition to work, you have one of two options to fix it.
