The other thought would be to borrow an XP disk but use your own key, assuming you have one. (Stressing that there is a difference between simply burning a disk and burning a bootable disk). In addition to what Alex has said, have you tried burning that ISO, assuming its a legit ISO, (if it's not, use at your peril and we can't help anyway), on a Windows machine running IMGBurn or similar software? I don't know the first thing about Ubuntu but I did read online that burning bootable disks can sometimes be a hit and miss affair with it. I realize this technically isn't the most legal way to go about this, but I'm flat broke and don't have the time or patience to deal with Microsoft's customer service department AGAIN.Īdditional Info: Booting from CD drive seems to commonly cause problems in numerous Acer Aspire models including mine, however despite extensive web-searching, I have yet to find a solution to my problem. iso download from another site on the chance my first file is corrupted somehow. And yes, I've tried turning it off and back on.

I've tried using k3b to burn the contents of the. I've tried pressing F2 to configure the startup settings and changing boot order from there. What I've tried: I've tried pressing F12 at startup to change the boot order. It shows a black screen with a flashing text cursor, then continues to boot normally to my Ubuntu partition. My problem is that when I try to boot my laptop from the CD drive, it just doesn't. iso file(it's an option on k3b) as well as simply. iso file from the interwebz(already have a working CD Key as I've bought XP in the past but lost the disk) and using k3b, burned it to a DVD+R disk. So, now I'm trying to install Windows XP SP3. Now it turns out that Linux is a brutal change for Windows users, and more importantly is useless for music editing and online gaming(my only computer related interests). The laptop came with Vista but couldn't run it properly, so I switched to Ubuntu. To start, I'm using an Acer Aspire 5810tz 'notebook' with Ubuntu 12.04 installed.

Hopefully you guys can help me as I've found a solution no where else on the web.

I have a real issue and, to be honest, joined this site out of desperation.

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