System initialization has failed

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Well, I answer my own question, in case somebody else is interested. I bought a ZIF SSD on ebay (Kingspec 128 GB), after inquiring with the seller if it was compatible (any 1.8' ZIF drive SHOULD be, at any rate) for about $140. Together I also bought, for additional $7.50, an USB - ZIF adapter enclosure and cable. I put the SSD in the USB enclosure and cloned the Flybook harddisk, using Acronis True Image, to te SSD in the USB enclosure. Then I opened the Flyboo. This was not very difficult: there's a protective sticker sheet under the battery, to remove carefully in order to access all the screws, then a lot of screws of 3 different sizes to keep track of. The original harddisk is kept in place just by a sticker sheet which peels off easily enough. Then I replaced the SSD in place of the HD, screwed back all the screws (careful here not to swap different sizes!) and put back in place the sticker sheet under the battery. It just worked at first try, and I'd say it works really great, much faster to boot up and resume from standby.

Your Hard Disk Drive is crashing or has crashed. You need to buy a new hard disk drive, and then you will have to reinstall windows and start over.

Hi there, yes you can upgrade your 80GB to 120GB hard drive on your Flybook V5. Toshiba makes a great drive for this. If you need instructions or help however, I was able to get all my questions answered by emailing [email protected] . I could not get through to anyone at Flybook directly however. :o(

Hi Piergiorgio,

Nothing in the registry or BIOS however, in the Flybook control center, you can manually set your brightness on the system and turn off auto backlight. That way the system will always turn on and your system will always remember the setting of the back light.

Let us know if that helps!

If you are unsure of how to install memory, I would take your system to a repair shop and have them do it for you.

this system will support 4gb of ram, but what you have to buy depends on what you already have installed.

If you have a single 2gb stick, that's easy....buy another 2gb and have it installed. if you have two 1gb sticks....then you would have to purchase two 2gb sticks to upgrade.

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Reinstall your operating system. First start p with the method you described, then backup all important data. YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARDDISK SO BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA AND PROGRAMS, OR YOU WILL LOSE THEM!!! Then insert the disk with your Operating System, and restart the computer. Boot from the disk and install the OS. After that you can reinstall your prgrams and put your data back on it.It should boot fien from now on. If not, please post back here. I hope this helps, Yannick.

Your startup repair option in Windows Install indicates a hardware conflict. Go to your System Setup in startup mode, by pressing Del, F2 or F10 whichever the hint is on screen during bootup. Once inside system setup, turn off almost everything, disable Speed Stepping in EPower, set monitor off to disable, Standby and Hibernation off as well. Turn off the modem and Network adapter if yo can. Just about everything that affects a device on the laptop. This would also include the Touch Pad if you're using a mouse.

And, in the long run, you may need to do a full Windows Install if the repair option continues to fail. Many of these failures are due to the Virtual Memory file size for Drive C being too low. If you can get into Safe Mode change this setting, right click My Computer, select Properties, go to Advanced, advance and change Virtual Memory on C to a fixed size about 1024Meg for min and max.

Also, should you be low on free space for drive C this could cause the same problem. You would have to choose a Full Install as an Option unfortunately.

In the absence of anything along these lines working, you should be able to choose Restore Acer option (or words to this affect), you would want to tap on F8 while booting, sometimes its F10, but this gives you a 'boot from what source' option, CDROM, Hard Drive or Restore Partition. Choose the Restore Partition and start over from scratch again.

Sorry, but this often happens and you and I have to live with this.

If you need any clarifications on what I've just stated, use the Comment Box Text Entry box below to send me a message. I'll get an email alert and will get back to you as soon as I can.

Regards,
Worldvet

press F8 key (just after BIOS screen) at the next cold reboot and you will see a DOS screen with 3 or more options. Read each of them and I think you will see one option is to resume setup. This option places the system at a safe entry point to continue the setup. Another option may read "cancel setup and restore previous system"...this one may be used if you cannot get the "resume setup" option after repeated tries.