Acer aspire i forgot my erecovery password

edenavina123

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i cant remember what password i used for my erecovery management and now i cant restore my aspire 5517 to its factory settings like i want to.
 

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The password is usually stored in a file of your recovery directory. Try to boot from any kind of Live CD (eg. Ultimate Boot CD, knoppix, Ubuntu, Hirens Boot CD) and navigate through your recoverydrive.
%drive letter%\TOOLS\AIMDRS.DAT

Open the AIMDRS.dat with an editor like notepad and retrieve your password.

Hope this helps