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    Acer Extensa 5420 Recovery

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Johnb35, Mar 17, 2012.

  1. Johnb35

    Johnb35 Newbie

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    I had to replace the hard drive due to old one totally died. Bought a new drive from Newegg and have tried using the recovery cd's to reinstall Vista. Unfortunately, it says no partition found. So I do some research online and see that I might need to download the post acer disk formatter before the recovery cd will work correctly. I ran the formatter and started the recovery cd again and it still says no partition found.

    What do I need to do to get this to work correctly? I created a 75 gb primary partition and tried again and it gave me an error of 0xa000000e, guess it didn't like the partition I made.

    Can anybody help me?
     
    Johnb35, Mar 17, 2012
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  2. oldcartfan

    oldcartfan Notebook Guru

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    Is the new drive that you installed the exact same size as the one you replaced?
     
    oldcartfan, Mar 20, 2012
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  3. j1cs

    j1cs Newbie

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    I just installed a new drive on acer 5551, there is a file from acer web site you have to download and run to prepair the hard drive to accept the recovery disk.
     
    j1cs, Mar 21, 2012
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