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    Acer question

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Dellhan, Dec 8, 2010.

  1. Dellhan

    Dellhan Newbie

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    My friend has an Acer aspiron one. Her ex husband looked up and put a bunch of virus's on it. I tried removing the virus's and has quite a few gone and the other day she went to turn it on and it acts like its going to boot up and then goes to a blank screen and does nothing she said it was running really slow and gave it to me to work on i plan on trying to fix it but im kinda lost on this one. Any ideas or help would be nice thanks.
    Matt
     
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  2. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    If it had many infections it would be safer to use Acer eRecovery (ALT+F10 at boot) to fully recover the system rather than try to repair the current one.
    You have to backup all the relevant data before doing it though- it's gonna wipe the hard drive.
     
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  3. jeffreybaks

    jeffreybaks Notebook Deity

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    That will teach em to mess with him yah. heh, I dont mean to joke but you dont see a post like that everyday. Thats a story, something you would read in the news paper or something. I would burn a linux ubuntu cd, its very simple takes les then 5 minutes, from there you can copy your entire files in ubuntu, and also partion your harddrive for a new windows install.

    Its called ubuntu live cd, it runs a desktop envirement from a optical drive. Here is the link to download it if your interested( link).
     
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  4. michael_recycled

    michael_recycled Notebook Deity

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    ^Partitioning the HDD might kill the recovery stuff.
    I agree, a Linux Live disc is an excellent tool to recover data from a damaged system.

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Dec 9, 2010
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