hello I am new to this sort of thing so forgive me if I make any mistakes... I have the above netbook that belongs to my son. he wants me to sort it out for him,  the problem is this:  it has no cd drive, and it COMES with windows 7 basic etc installed on the harddrive.  somehow a password was lost and no one could open it in windows. So I took the hdd  out and installedit in my own pc as a slave drive and formatted it... this was the only way I could open it.     ACER no longer support it and I cant get the drivers etc that it needs . it has wifi and everything on it but I cant get it to see them.is there any way I can get the files and drivers I NEED to restore it to its former glory...

any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated...



thank you.Well, removing the HARD drive and FORMATTING it was, in my opinion, the WRONG thing to do.  Most likely, the hard drive had a recovery partition on it and the system could have been restored to it's original configuration from that recovery partition.  This is the common way in which manufacturers provide owners a way to restore the system to factory settings if needed.

I suggest you go to http://us-store.acer.com/rcd/ and order the "Recovery Media" for that computer.  Since you're dealing with a netbook which, I presume, has no CD/DVD drive, you will need to get an external USB DVD drive so that you can put the Recovery Media in it and boot from it.