Acer laptop recovery help!!

[sysserv]

we have had a few laptops that we have had passwords put on by workers when they left us, and although many people have told us to take out the battery etc, non of that works as the passwords are stored on security chips etc.

we have used the following people and have had nothing but success with them

hope it helps

http://laptoprepairweb.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=205&products_id=17

 

[putramaahad87]

My friend has an acer aspire 4710 with vista basic preinstalled. Also included with acer e-recovery. But his laptop crashed and had to use pirated version. How to reinstall the original vista basic using the acer empowering, the acer e-recovery. HE DID NOT MAKE ANY BACKUP CDs because he is not good in computer stuffs. can I install acer e-recovery in pirated version and use the factory default setting to recoverthe original vista basic in the PQ service partition. I think it is still usable.
In any case, could the PQ service partition can corrupt or attacked by virus since it is not used for 2 years and the partition is obviously hidden.

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i have the same problem as tauki.. is there any help? i install windows 7 on my vista premium included with recovery. and i delete the old windows. i thougt is waste the space in my drive c.. but when i try to use alt+f10 to go to recovery page.. its doesnt work.. how do i get to original vista without boot cd? use f12 maybe.. thanks!

 

[Guest]

People are looking at this thread because they didn't get their recovery disc/s with their systems, otherwise they would simply set their computers to boot from CD in the BIOS. To use the <Alt><F10> method to recover their systems from the 'hidden partition' I have made this little guide:

I know this works because I had to do this myself

Reboot your computer and hold down F8, from the menu that follows choose:

Repair your computer
Select keyboard layout, click Next then enter your user details
Click Command prompt
here you should be presented with 'X:\Windows\System32
type 'cd\' <Enter> without quotes
then at X:\ type 'mbrwrwin boot hdo:x' <Enter> without quotes
this sets the MBR to boot off the X: partition (ie. 'hidden partition')
now type 'Exit'

click on Restart and as soon as the Acer splash screen comes hold down the magic combination <Alt><F10>
and from there you can proceed to start D2D recovery

Hi Matt
I tried this and now my computer stopped working. now it comes OxOOOOOOe message and I cant do anything.

Thanks Faizal

 

[Cysec]

Hey folks, for all of you who, like me, couldn't get any of the above solutions to work, here's a page that helped me out and got it working!

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Acer-D2D-Erecovery-101&id=1160163

It covers three types of issues:
1 Where you still have a bootable windows install (maybe you upgraded) and a recovery partition that you can't get at (alt+f10 doesn't work).

2 Where you can't find the mbrwrdos.exe or rtmbr.bin files listed in many of the repair methods listed above.

3 Where you no longer have a functioning windows install, can't get alt+f10 to work, but still have the recovery partition in place and just want to know how to get at it. (Here's where I was at)

I followed the directions he lists under step 3, but used the UBCD on a USB stick method shown on the UBCD site and installed the GAG bootloader, switched to the appropriate disk using the number keys, then selected the partition that was type 27 (hidden) as my boot target, booted it, and I'm watching the progress of the restore now.

 

[gilla28]

If your PQSERVICE Partition is intact and Alt+F10 doesn't work, you can try the following steps:

First of all, here is how to find out if the PQService partition is intact:
1) Go to Control Panel (Classic View)
2) Administrative Tools
3) Computer Management
4) On the left, click "Disk Management"
5) If on the right, you see a partition called "PQService - EISA Configuration", your recovery partition is intact. (In my case, the partition was 4.3 GB with 17% free disk space, which meant that there was a lot of data on it)

If your partition is intact, try the following:
1) Download Super Fdisk Bootable CD from http://www.ptdd.com/manual2.htm or here
2) Burn the iso on a CD
3) Boot your laptop/netbook using the Bootable CD.
4) once the software loads, you will see the two partitions. PQService will be inactive and C drive will be active.
5) In my case, the mouse was not working, so i went ahead anyway, and by pressing the space bar, i managed to exchange the status of the partitions. So now the PQService was active and C was hidden and inactive.
6) Press Alt+F4 to close the software. You will get a dialog box to save the changed state. Press "Yes".
7) Reboot.
8) Hopefully, you will see the recovery screen. Go ahead and recover from Backup.
9) After recovery, when the computer reboots, you need to go back to Super F Disk and exchange the partition status again, so repeat steps 3 to 7 again, such that PQService is inactive and C is active. If you don't do this, your computer will remain in recovery mode.
10) After reboot, you should have windows restored normally.


(I had d2d disabled in the bios, but i don't know if that made any difference)

 

[stormz1010]

help help help some body please help any body please please help here is the prob i have an acer aspire 5315 i have the recovery cds etc me i went and putt windows 7 on top of that lil did i realise i also deleted all my restore files from the computer now i have to give this laptop back to my ex and now want to revert back to vista is there anyways of doing this as im intermediate but don't know al about computer i even try the f8 no such luck wen i user acer recovery cds comes up with error somebody anybody who is kind enough to give me an email please please please do so as im lost my addy is please please help thanks



your sincerely
Mathew

 

[doubtfire25]

hi,

i don't think i would get any reply from acer site. if they do reply it could be weeks from now.

i'm not very good with this OS thing. but still trying to figure out how can i take a look at the hidden partition. i'm just want to make sure the recovery files in the partition are still there. have asked to three forum but still not getting any reply yet only views. have checked to a lot previous thread but i still don't get it. i want to know what options i still have. is the <alt> <f10> won't work because the recovery doesn't exist anymore. if they still exist is there a way i can run any files thru the hidden partition to do recovery without any external cd or use the <alt><f10> method.

anyway i'm still waiting if anybody has any ideas.

thanks.

If you enable the boot menu in the bios and F12 at POST, you should have a listing with Vista on it. This is the recovery manager. Select it and it will start the recovery manager.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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