Acer Aspire 7720 Help

I was playing around with Ubuntu Linux and I somehow accidently erased my backup partition. I never made a backup disc (silly me) and my only option now is to borrow my brothers copy of Vista, yeah I know that's wrong but it's better than trying to get my valid copy of 98 to work. Anyway I contacted Acer (UK) and they want £50 off me to send it back for them to put the recovery partition back on. I asked them to send me a back up disc that I was quite willing to pay for and they told me no way. So my question is this, can any kind soul tell me any way to get a back up disc/s or be willing to burn me the appropriate disc/s? I'm willing to pay for them.



Chuffer

 

As far as I know, recovery disks do not re-create hidden partitions, so once you has erased it, it´s gone.

My humble advice, install Vista again and try the serial code under your laptop, guess it´s the easiest and painless solution.

Good Luck and kind regards

P.S: I´m not an expert in this area (nor in other one ), so I may be wrong, just trying to help from my tiny little knowledge
P.S2: Charging $80 for something that should be factory included, IMHO it´s INSANE .

 

Looks like its a new fashion... now the brands save money even on the price of the DVD media!

 

You guys, the upgrade disc that comes in the box with the acer's(well it came with mine) can be booted from and will allow you to install any version of vista, then jst use ur liscence key

 

Mine´s came with no soft cd at all... (just one with Acer Dialer c**p)

Later...

 

my acer had NO disks at all included in the box....

 

NO disks here either..

 

if there is a license code sticker on the laptop anywhere....(normally at the bottom)....u cud install that specific os and use that key....it shud get activated....!!

 

Dear Listmembers,

I brought an Acer 7720-4749 from someone in canada. Very cheap 350 dollars. Everything is fine except for the fact that the laptop screen has lots of grains. I asked my friend and he suggested to go to best buy. He thought there was a problem wtih the chip set. When I connected external monitor, it's great. When I start the computer with windows vistas (from CDR) still the problem persists. I don't want to spend another 400 dollars to fix it. I searched online. Some claim it is a problem with Bios. The computer seem to have been purchased from elsewhere not from North America and more than one year old and I don't have a recepit. Has any one had such problem with GRAINS? The diagnostics says, RGB - white color is missing. It is more of red color, some sort of lines are visible. Computer works great, I can do anything and everything except this problem. Any advice would be appreciated. Could you please e-mail me at: [email protected]? Thanks