i actually have two issues, one serious, one an annoyance.
serious first:
my acer aspire 5100 has a serious error with its file system. i think i know what the problem is, the problem is that your main solution i think is the cause, service pack 1. some background info if it may help, my first attempt at installing sp1 failed. it said that it was rolling back its updates and then sat on 0% for a few hours with no activity from the computer at all. i turned it off and turned it back on, and then while it was checking its internal files, the rollback must not have gotten into some registery files and so the system never started back up. to get things useable again i used my created factory reset disc to reformat my c: partition and set the system back to day 1. i then restarted my attempt to upgrade to sp1. i downloaded all updates and redownloaded sp1 and again attempted to install it. this time the unit shut off while the upgrade was in progress and again would not load up. so for a third time i reset. this time stage 1 did not upgrade correctly so it rebooted itself and started the process over. this time sp1 installed all the way, but now i have a serious problem.
i have a wireless network at home where i have mapped some drives on the laptop. any click on those shared folders will either cause a blue screen or seriously lock up the system where i have to do a hard reboot. the error message flies by so fast that the only headers that i got was that it is an rdr file system error. this is not just on the folders on another computer, this is on my own shared folders that i have on my laptop, except there looking at the folder's properties kills the system. when i do that, there is a 1-7 chance that the system loads; on failed attempts i get maybe 2 frames in where the graphical boot screen is not even fully illuminated and there is no system activity.
i don't know what is going on as there were zero programs ,devices, or drivers installed between upgrading sp1 and having this problem and it did not happen before installing sp1.
my second problem came from the first, i had duel booted with ultimate on a seperate partition and now i want to remove it because it's taking up too much space on that partition. other than a format how would i go about getting rid of that?
serious first:
my acer aspire 5100 has a serious error with its file system. i think i know what the problem is, the problem is that your main solution i think is the cause, service pack 1. some background info if it may help, my first attempt at installing sp1 failed. it said that it was rolling back its updates and then sat on 0% for a few hours with no activity from the computer at all. i turned it off and turned it back on, and then while it was checking its internal files, the rollback must not have gotten into some registery files and so the system never started back up. to get things useable again i used my created factory reset disc to reformat my c: partition and set the system back to day 1. i then restarted my attempt to upgrade to sp1. i downloaded all updates and redownloaded sp1 and again attempted to install it. this time the unit shut off while the upgrade was in progress and again would not load up. so for a third time i reset. this time stage 1 did not upgrade correctly so it rebooted itself and started the process over. this time sp1 installed all the way, but now i have a serious problem.
i have a wireless network at home where i have mapped some drives on the laptop. any click on those shared folders will either cause a blue screen or seriously lock up the system where i have to do a hard reboot. the error message flies by so fast that the only headers that i got was that it is an rdr file system error. this is not just on the folders on another computer, this is on my own shared folders that i have on my laptop, except there looking at the folder's properties kills the system. when i do that, there is a 1-7 chance that the system loads; on failed attempts i get maybe 2 frames in where the graphical boot screen is not even fully illuminated and there is no system activity.
i don't know what is going on as there were zero programs ,devices, or drivers installed between upgrading sp1 and having this problem and it did not happen before installing sp1.
my second problem came from the first, i had duel booted with ultimate on a seperate partition and now i want to remove it because it's taking up too much space on that partition. other than a format how would i go about getting rid of that?