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    Acer Aspire ONE - Problems with System Restore

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by alexUW, Sep 25, 2011.

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    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hi,

    I am currently trying to do a system restore on my sister's Aspire ONE - AOA 110 - 1588. Trying system restore as it gets a BSOD at every boot and restarts.
    I am using a LG external DVD drive to load the system recovery Disc. However, the Disc does load the Windows files and gets stuck at a grey screen that says "Please Wait a Moment" (or something along those lines).

    Does anyone know what could be the cause or any possible work arounds? Thanks! :D
     
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    When the machine first starts up at the acer screen, press alt+F10, this should start the built in acer recovery, providing the recovery partition is still there!!
     
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    No workie :( Thanks for the input though, +rep

    I'm going to try the "load Recovery CD to USB drive" method. Hopefully this alternative migth work
     
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    Before you do that, in the bios, just make sure D2D Recovery is enabled, then restart, and try the ALT+F10 pretty much when you press the power button, and keep pressing both.
     
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    I thought I would update this thread as I finally got the System Recovery to run off an external DVD drive.
    I've also googled tons of threads with the same problem but none have a solution.


    I should first say that my netbook has Windows XP on it.


    1. Netbook was BSOD`ing because of lack of harddrive space [see first post]. I was able to launch a Linux Boot-CD and navigate into the Harddrive and manually delete items to freeup some space. This allowed the Netbook to boot into windows, but was still not able to perform a recovery.


    2. Once I was able to boot into windows, it then asked if I wanted to run a scheduled "scan-disc", which I said NO [it never gave this option prior when I was getting BSODs].
    Still not able to perform a recovery [windows was heavily corrupted]. I finally allowed it to do a scan-disc; as a last resort. WHELP, after scandisc ran and was automatically turned off, the System Recovery FINALLY was able to run off the DVD [external]. */me bangs head on wall*


    So to others that have the same problem, if it's BSODing and restarting, make sure your HDD has enough free space, and if Recovery will not launch, make sure scan-disc is not set to auto-schedule and set to off.


    Thanks and good luck
     
    alexUW, Oct 17, 2011
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