How do I use Acer Recovery CDs?

slap in disk one and reboot. It's going to restore everything back to the way it was when you got the machine. You'll lose everything you added.

Acer TravelMate 2310 recovery cd does not boot

I have a problem with recovery cd. It does not boot. I tried to boot something else and it is ok. The cd boots fine. That is why I exclude BIOS Settings. The situation looks like that: I want to recover my system from recovery cd but I cannot. There is no recovery partition to use it. Bios settings are fine. Can any one help me?!! Please.

There's your answer, you deleted the recovery partition, thus you will not be able to restore it with the cds.

So it means that after you loose recovery partition (let say hard drive is gone) I cannot use even recovery cd... well there is nothing else to do like to install Windows from original CD. Thanks for help. At least now I will not spent more time to try to run the recovery.

No, once u delete that partition, or get a new hard drive, the only way to install Windows is thru formatting and installing the OS from scratch.

Not true adinu, I deleted my recovery partition and my recovery cds still worked...

The idea behind creating the recovery cd is to copy the files from the partition to multiple cd's. That way if the hd dies you'll still be able to recover.
I changed the hd in my 5670 and used recovery cd's to restore without a problem.

Or if you lose the CD's!

Well, that's good to know. I always thought that if u deleted the partition, the recovery cd's were useless. I guess its different for Acer laptops, because I definitely tried this with an older Dell, and it didn't work w/o the partition.

Recovery would wipe out everything in C Drive. It would not do anything to the other partition, provided if you have other partition/partitions. I cannot remeber but I think format would wipe out your whole hard drive, that includes all the partition drives. You might try holding f2 key down and change the set up to allow for booting CD drive first, may be this might get you to recovery CD options.

restore on 5192

I have same machine 5102 and have done both the cd recoverey and partition recovery. once you use cd recovery you will lose some of the epower management stuff but this doesn't happen if you use the partition recovery. PS did your memory come stock or did you add it. I only have the one GB that came with machine six months ago and am thinking about going up to 2gb. Does it help much?

Sorry for my bad english in advance.

Your problem Mr. Kanabus is no the cd because is not bootable. You must press ALT + F10 when started notebook. This charging a small routine for yours recovery cd.
you choose the recovery from cd or hide partition.

Remenber to activate in Bios:
- Boot from cd From Boot menu.
- Activate the opcion D2D RECOVERY in the Main menu. The ( ALT+F10) when started Ok.

My first time I was crazy with this matter.

I will hope to be help to you.

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When I use the recovery cd's the second disk can't find the images files. Can any one help me?

This only works if you HAVE the recovery partition. If you do not have the recovery partition you have to disable D2D Recovery in the BIOS then boot off the system or the recovery discs that are provided. If you boot from the system disc it will simply ask you to insert either a backup or recovery disc to restore the system with. With D2D you cannot boot from any Acer media but you can boot from other types of media (I.E PE program or windows XP OEM disc.) Hope this helps someone.

does anyone here knows where to find or to download Recovery CD for aspire 1644wlmi... i mess up my lap, i formated the hardrive not knowing recovery was stored there...

Hi,

I have a slight concern about the Acer Recovery thing, When I bought that notebook it had a giant C partition with 750 GBs, I shrank it into another Partition named "E" and stored my personal data there. Now the question is if I ever have to use Acer Recovery will it also influence the E partition that I created myself for my personal data? Is there any kind of option during the recovery process to prevent influencing the custom made partition to prevent the data loss, as the data is so much that it will take quite some time to write on DVDs.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I have used the recovery cds or ERecovery several times, there are no real options for any modifications, it erases the whole drive and restores it as it came out of the box

these discs will be as good as recovering what have been saved on the disc other changes will have to happen after the recovery.

I ordered the eRecovery CDs from Acer, and followed the instruction. But the computer hangs right post the windows logo showed up, with message "Please wait a moment...." . Well, it has been quite some time now, almost an hour now, and there is no more harddrive accessing light flashing (it did flash at the beginning). I have not modify the partition table for the computer, and I can see the three partitions when boot into a Linux live OS (not on hard drive). Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

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