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    Acer recovery disk will work after reformat with Vista?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Amuse, Aug 8, 2008.

  1. Amuse

    Amuse Notebook Enthusiast

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    Bought new Acer laptop from store
    It came loaded with bloatware and Acer software
    I made the recovery disk DVDs
    I reformatted the computer, deleted the partitions with my Vista Home Premium DVD (using the Vista key on bottom of laptop) and installed all the drivers

    Now, will the recovery disks still work? Will it automatically install everything (partitions, Vista Home Premium, bloatware, Acer software) or will it not?
     
    Amuse, Aug 8, 2008
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  2. andyasselin

    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    It will reinstall stock vista image yes that include all preinstall software on laptop

    if you deleted the recovery partion on hard disk you will have lost abitly to do disk to disk restore

    you can always use the cdrom to restore at any time they do not need hard disk recovery partion to be intacted
     
    andyasselin, Aug 8, 2008
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  3. Amuse

    Amuse Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh ok, so the only way to do disk to disk restore is to keep the original recovery partition. So the disks have no use now.
     
    Amuse, Aug 8, 2008
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    Hey where about vancouver you at :> Am on vancouver island
     
    andyasselin, Aug 8, 2008
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    jc55 Notebook Consultant

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    Had mine all XP, used the DVD's I made from computer to restore Vista
    on C, so you can use the DVD's to restore. It will restore to how it
    was when you bought it, except it will not put PQpartition back.
    Note that it also changed my bios and made USB harddrives
    non bootable. Loading defaults in bios fixed that.

    James
     
    jc55, Aug 9, 2008
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    cajaz Newbie

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    i have an acer extensa 4630 and i have made all of the back up disks (restore disks and driver/software back up disks), and i would like to know if i can still restore my computer to factory settings with those three disks after i completely format my hard drive because i want to install linux ubuntu with out dual booting.
     
    cajaz, Dec 30, 2008
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    paten Notebook Consultant

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    The recovery disks will work. If you deleted the recovery partition, the disks will still work. They will not recreate any partitions either. They will just wipe the C:\ drive and overlay the factory default image to the C:\ drive.
     
    paten, Dec 30, 2008
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