Acer 8930g Restore Disk Probs - HELLPPP!!

Hello all,

So I bought two of these nice big shiny laptops and I as soon as I have started Vista they both want to create restore disks. No prob, I went and bought fresh DVD-R discs!

However, during the process I noticed the time getting longer and longer resulting in over 5hrs to burn a single disc!

I left them overnight as I thought it was a little odd and got the resulting burn error message then all hell broke loose! Both laptops no longer recongised their Blue ray drives!! . The only way I could get them to shut down and restart fresh was too pull the power and remove the batteries....

I tried to burn normal files using the same type of discs and they worked fine, so why doesnt the eBackup programme like them?

Their must be a simple solution to this! I can't believe both laptops are faulty with the same issue!!

Please HELP!!

Thanks!

 

If I were you, first I'd recover my laptops using the recovery partitions. Then I'll go out and buy 2 new Verbatim DVD-Rs and try it again.
By the way, if you recover from your recovery partitions and your blue-rays still don't work then this will obviously mean they are faulty(or got broken for some reason..)

 

To ATG!

Thanks! *Didn't know their was a recovery partition!*

Blue ray drives work after reboot but I must admit I was full of panic when they disappered!

 

If you want to recover using the recovery partitions just enable D2D Recovery in the BIOS then press ALT+F10 at startup to start the recovery process. The recovery CDs you want to burn are actually backup of the recovery partition and it's a good thing to do it.
Anyway, if the bluerays work fine then do what I suggested, get new disks - Verbatum are one of the best in my opinion - and try to burn the recovery CDs again. Use one of the laptops first
Good luck.

 

Again ATG to the rescue!

The first disk is almost complete now (about 20 mins burn time!) much better than 5hrs+crash!

Those disks appear to be working!

 

Sorry to bring this topic up if its slightly old now, but I have got the EXACT same problem as you Uglychisopi except mine is the 6935G model & with a DVD-RW drive and not a blu ray drive. First disk gets to 99%, disk stops spinning and then the laptop halts for 3 mins or so before I can move the mouse again but whatever I do it will not move onto finalizing the disk and it does not even ask for disk 2 either! I've just bought some new DVD-R disks and I'm going to try them tonight, did using some new DVD disk work for you in the end Uglychisopi?

Thanks - Liam