Posts by knownuts

Thanks a lot for that info.! Could you please tell me if there's a way whereby I can check if I still have my Acer MBR as originally my machine was working as Acer set it to be - no problems - till the viruses attacked my machine....

Quote: Originally Posted by Dave_Clan_Man Is your D patition fat32 ?. I assume the PQSERVICE partition is intact and that you have not removed/replaced/changed the ACER specific MBR ?. Either of the above will cause...

I have a 8204 and tried to use the Acer eRecovery to do the snapshot image backup and each time I tried to do this, it tells me the backup has failed. I followed the instructions as it said and I have no idea why it failed. Can someone...

CoolHotCold, I tried doing what you said and still nothing happened. It just refuses to boot up from the hidden parition. I gave up in the end after trying so many times. I decided to go to eRecovery to do the boot from the recovery CDs...

Hi CoolHotCold! I tried doing what you have said and it still doesn't work. Here's what I did....ALT+F10 brings up the eRecovery and I entered the password then checked Recovery Actions (to restore system factory default...

Well, what can I say to you except thank you again for your help. I will DEFINITELY get this done once I get things sorted out. Shame you're not here yourself to get mine sorted. That would help me a lot trying to get things done...

Quote: Originally Posted by CoolHotCold Press F2 to get into Bios. Scroll across to Main and you will see a option called "D2D Recovery". Enable that and your golden. And remember it should be Alt + F10 to...

CoolHotCold.....we meet again. Thanks for informing about that grey box issue. I guess I have a lot to learn from you and the others in this forum. Another thing I have to do to solve this problem. I'm just wandering when all this will...

CoolHotCold, thanks a lot for that. I shall give that a try once I've fixed the other problems I seems to have with mine. So "Omega" drivers work better than ATI without conflicts to other software programs?

kohaar, you're most likely to be correct there. Since as I'm having so many problems with this, I'm going to try and do another reboot but this time, I'm trying to get it done via the hidden partition (everything is still in FAT32) in...