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    Acer Recovery Console problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by bunnny, Feb 2, 2008.

  1. bunnny

    bunnny Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys,

    The problem in brief:

    1. I upgraded the XP to a Vista Home Premium. As you all know with this
    operation we're loosing the build-in manufacturer Recovery Console software.

    2. A few days ago I got some kind of ****ty virus and I decided to Recover the OS through my Recovery Console CD copies(2 CD's) I made before I upgrade to Vista.

    3. I changed with F6 the boot way to start reading from the Pioneer ATA device. Once the image loading completed it says..."Please wait...", and that's it. I was waiting almost an hour without any result. It doesn't show the Recovery Console window, but only this black screen with the label...
    "Please wait...".

    4. What to do? Please help! Is there any other options, methods or ways to recover the system and how to do that? I'm begging for your kind cooperation & valuable help! Thank you so much in advance!

    P.S. My PC configuration:

    Summary

    Manufacturer Acer
    Product Name Aspire 5100
    OS Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
    Chipset ATI RS485MC/RX485 SB460
    Processor AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52
    System Memory 1GB
    Hard Drive 1 ST9100824A ATA Device, 93.16 GB
    CD/DVD Drive 1 PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K16RS ATA Device
    Video ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
    Video Memory 319 MB
    Audio Realtek High Definition Audio
    Ethernet Card 1 Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
    WLAN Card 1 Atheros AR5005G Wireless Network Adapter

    Processor

    Bus Speed 800 MHz
    Stepping 2
    External Clock 200 MHz
    Dual-Core Enabled
    L1 Cache Data Cache 64 KB
    Execution Trace Cache 64 KB
    L2 Cache 512 KB
     
    bunnny, Feb 2, 2008
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  2. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    try changing the boot to dvd first in bios.
    put the cd/dvd you burnt in to the dvd drive. and restarting.
    this should boot from the cd/dvd's.
    in the bios make sure the D2D recovery is enabaled.
    if that leaves you stuck then you need to try the Alt+F10 at the acer screen.

    always try the easy stuff first. :D
     
    hoggie, Feb 3, 2008
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  3. bunnny

    bunnny Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey mate,

    i did try already this...nothing...it still says...:"Please wait..."
     
    bunnny, Feb 3, 2008
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    jbazsa Newbie

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    You have to make a fat32 partition which must be D:
     
    jbazsa, Feb 6, 2008
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  5. bunnny

    bunnny Notebook Enthusiast

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    hi jbazsa,

    you I thought the same...because I've noticed that actually I don't have a second partition(which is FAT32) and I thought this might be from Vista CD's. They probably wiped out that one.
    Is there anything I should be aware of once I start doing it?
    Thank you for the cooperation! Really appreciated!
     
    bunnny, Feb 6, 2008
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