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Your Acer should now boot from the USB stick.

Once in the BIOS select the Boot Menu and move the USB HDD to the top of the list (using F5 and F6 to move them up and down).

Reboot the Acer and press F2 at the “splash screen” to go into the BIOS settings.

Now copy the BIOS files onto the USB drive as well.

Click on “OK” and FreeDOS will be installed onto the USB drive.

At the bottom of the window ensure the “Type” is “USB Drive” and the “Drive” is the drive letter of your USB memory stick.

It will prompt for a “Distribution” – change this to “FreeDOS”.

Ensure your memory stick is plugged in and run UNetbootin.

A download of the latest BIOS from Acer.

Simply click on the option to download the latest Windows version.

A download of UNetbootin – this is a free program that will create a bootable USB device with one of a number of downloadable operating systems, including any your own.

Now, and this is where I went wrong initially, the USB memory has to be formatted as FAT32 and not NTFS. No idea why as the files took up 3.2MB in total. I read somewhere that recommended a 4GB one. And that when I say USB memory, I also mean USB drive. That means putting DOS on a USB stick and booting from it.īear in mind that I have a Windows XP A150 Aspire One. And not the Command Prompt DOS-a-like that Windows offers. In a nutshell, the BIOS has to be upgraded via DOS.

In the end I found a combination of advice was the best solution. I couldn’t find anything on the Acer site on how to do it, although they offer the BIOS updates, but I did find various forums and blogs where it’s been discussed. As much as I hate doing BIOS updates, due to the possibility of catastrophic problems, I decided to give it a go. The BIOS on my Acer was horribly out of date and the change logs showed that a lot of useful fixes had been implemented since.