Comments on: Acer Recovery CD Error 0xd0000017

By: Rhett

Rhett — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:58:32 +0000

I’m guessing you’re being asked for your root password? I can’t tell you what that is.

By: ive

ive — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:29:16 +0000

and what if it asks an password in the terminal window?
don’t now what that is:p

By: Rhett

Rhett — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:52:15 +0000

Tim,

Please look at the 4th paragraph from the bottom and continue from there. The process is to boot from a linux live CD or USB stick, get a shell, and use dd to erase everything on the disk. You can add “bs=512M” to the end to make it go faster.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:18:47 +0000

So what am i supposed to do to get rid of the error in order to re-instal my system disk?

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:56:53 +0000

Thanks Rhett! One thing to add – If you just delete the partition (with whatever method you prefer) the Acer recovery will create a new one for you. No format is necessary.

By: Hugh in downtown London, England

Hugh in downtown London, England — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:30:06 +0000

Genius! Thanks Rhett.

Been challenged by this for ages. This post “showed me the way”.

As someone said “you need several computers to fix one broken one” but the quick and apparently straightforward way is to download the Ubuntu netbook remix or similar onto a USB stick. Boot from that. It includes Partition Editor. Run it from Administration. Delete the primary partition AND reformat as FAT32.

Now boot from your Acer recovery media and ‘Voila!’. I can now flog my laptop with confidence and get something with a built in webcam (major deficiency of an otherwise excellent laptop).

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:28:03 +0000

If only you had a friend who used to do SCSI drivers and performance analysis for large scale disk systems on unix.

Oh wait..that’s me.
Next time, try using the bs (block size) option for dd.
If I remember right, dd will default to 512 byte block operations..VERY slow, because you have a high protocol to data ratio. Modern media should accept very large “blocks”, and will break it up as needed..so go for a nice meg or so. It makes a huge difference.

Oh..and you might be able to just get rid of the partition table.

By: Rhett

Rhett — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:40:44 +0000

DIM, you need to do that with root privileges, so try putting “sudo” at the beginning of the command.

By: DIM

DIM — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:25:57 +0000

and what about if the permission denied when typed dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda ?

By: Rhett

Rhett — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:14:25 +0000

Interesting point to note, Terry. Of course, I didn’t have XP media or any other, for that matter, which required resorting to more…crude…means.