Acer Aspire 6920G recovery

Hello =)

The story:
I used eRecovery to restore my 6920G, everything went fine and I was back to the fresh desktop screen. After a few installations the laptop had to reboot, but it rebooted into Acer eRecovery Management , it first asked me for the language, then I had 3 options:
- Restore system from factory default (Greyed out)
- Restore system from users backup (Greyed out)
- Exit
I chose Exit and kept rebooting, only to end up in Acer eRecovery Management with the same options again and again

I used Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) and booted from some random HP/NTFS hard disk I found (named Primary 3) and it worked A new volume had appeared in my computer, called PQSERVICE ( F: ). It's probably the Acer recovery partition.

My problem: Everytime I restart my laptop, it boots into Acer eRecovery management. So to reach my desktop I have to use the UBCD everytime...

My question: Can anyone explain what happened to me and tell me how to do a full clean recovery in my current situation? Or at least how to prevent my laptop from booting into Acer eRecovery?

Yes, I tried Alt-F10. But all I got was a blinking underscore on the top-left corner. I have read about D2D and how mine might be corrupted.

Thanks in advance

 

Go to laptop BIOS and disable D2D boot option...
It should stop D2D from booting...

Cheers

 

If you have recover cd's try them.
also try to find acer mbr and apply it.

 

Thanks for your quick replies

@Arminator: I disabled D2D recovery from BIOS but nothing changed.

@lloco73: I tried my recovery CD's before, they are corrupted. What's the mbr? How will it help and how do I apply it?

 

Still no solution? Anyone out there help me please!

 

you can try following...but with no guarantee and with your own risk.

call diskpart as admin, type following commands:

select disk 0
list partition

now you can see a list of your partitions, the frist should be the recovery, look if you have also a 100mb partition, if so, then this should be set active, if not, the system partition should be set active. keep the number of the partiton you have to set active in mind.

type:
select partition 2
active

this sets the second partition active, use the number that you have kept in mind

type:
select partition 1
remove
set id=27 override
exit

this removes the drive letter from the recovery partition and sets its type to hidden windows recovery partition
exit closes diskpart.

reboot and check if it's booting right.

 

Hi tugato

Thank you for replying.

As shown in the attached picture: my first partition is empty.
My second partition is most likely the recovery partition (the one I removed the drive letter from and set its type to hidden)
When you said "the system partition" I think you meant the third one (the main), so I set it as active.
I have no idea what the fourth partition is

I followed the steps you mentioned, still nothing changed

Did I do any step wrong?

 

Any solutions anyone? Is there no other way but to take it to service?

 

Why don't you just give up on repairing it and use a retail windows disk, do a full format, clean install windows and use your product key to activate it by phone or over internet?
It's gonna take you an hour or two to make it functional (all drivers and apps are available either from hardware manufacturers or from Acer support site) as opposed to at least a week if you send it to Acer.

 

Hi Hamade, did you manage to sort it out then. Im having the same problem.