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    5920g Help please

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by webbpet, Sep 16, 2009.

  1. webbpet

    webbpet Newbie

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    I cant get my laptop to recover either using ALT F10 or recovery discs it just get stuck with screen showing please wait a moment. Can any help please

    Peter
     
    webbpet, Sep 16, 2009
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    techiediva Notebook Consultant

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    test the hard drive. could be bad.
     
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    Thanks for your reply
    Thats what I suspected. If I bought a new drive could i use my recovery discs to re-instate mo laptop

    Peter
     
    webbpet, Sep 17, 2009
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    chriscatt Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi, if you have the recovery discs anyway, and you made sure you verified them when creating them, why not try deleting the c partition first, using a xp/2k installation cd. Then use your backup discs to restore, it could also be that the boot mbr is corrupt...
    Chris
     
    chriscatt, Sep 17, 2009
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    Hi Helpful people
    I installed a new hard drive set bios to coot from dvd it started the recovery but when it went to partition new drive an error messabe said type mis-match . Acer help desk says it dosen't recognise the drive as an acer drive and say if I returned the laptop to them the wil put in new configured drive but will cost over £100
    Peter
     
    webbpet, Sep 17, 2009
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    I think you need Acer eRecovery and convert hdd partitions from NTSF to FAT32 .
     
    Illyrians ©, Sep 28, 2009
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