I have an Acer Tablet PC C314XMi that has been working a treat since I
bought it October 2005.  A week or so ago the external display ceased
to work.  Acer support says it is a software glitch and that I should
check the display settings in eManager.  But it failed to open.  Tried

I bought an Aspire E360 a couple months ago and finally got around to
putting Linux on it.
I did my best to make the new partition layout "recovery
disk-friendly".  I deleted the C: partition and created a new C: