The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    5610Z recovery partition password protected?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Trucker61, Nov 28, 2007.

  1. Trucker61

    Trucker61 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    18
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    This is my wifes laptop, it has windows Vista home premium on it and she wants XP instead. The laptop came with a Vista upgrade disk, and when you access the recovery partition it boots through an "XP" splash screen and then wants an "Acer Enpowering Technology" password to continue, I cannot find any passwords in the manual or paperwork that I have for it. I am hoping the restoration files on the partition are XP, that would make things a bit easier :)

    Any ideas how to get past this?

    Thanks!
     
    Trucker61, Nov 28, 2007
    #1
  2. Mirel

    Mirel Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    5
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I once tried Acer eRecovery while in windows, it asked for a password I obviously forgot. With Norton Partition Magic you can get in the hidden partition, and find a textfile with the password in it.
     
    Mirel, Nov 28, 2007
    #2