So, if you want to be able to create a recovery drive using an external USB flash drive, you need to have two flash drives connected to your Mac, or else it will not list any as an option. It will consider, conversely, the first USB flash drive it finds to be the local HDD, and any subsequent USB flash drives to be just that: external USB flash drives. (2) boot your hp laptop, and press the esc key to get into bios settings. The wizard that comes up does not recognize the SATA drive in my Macbook (understandably, since the Acer Aspire One comes with no HDD). With all removed from the laptophold the power button down for one minute. I used VMWare Fusion to create an 'Other Linux 2.6.x kernel' virtual machine, inserted the DVD, and the VM automatically booted from the DVD without having to leave my Mac OS X environment.
In order to use the DVD, you are supposed to boot from it, but Macs will not recognize it as bootable media.
It does comes with a DVD, though, that lets you either install Linpus Linux OS to the netbook by connecting an external USB optical drive to it, or create a recovery USB drive using the DVD in other computer (a Mac, in this case). Acer's Aspire One netbook laptop comes without an optical drive. disable 'secure boot' and enable the F12 function (which allows you to select the boot device on start up) insert the USB stick. Acer Aspire Boot Disk Software Active Boot Disk Win Edition v.5.0.5 Active Boot Disk Win Edition 5.0.5 comes as a bootable CD that is developed to provide you a lightweight Windows VISTA (WinPE 2.0) environment with disk image, data recovery, password resetting, data erasure and network access tools.The WinPE 2.0.
