Aspire 5100 Disk2disk

Been having problems recently with my laptop so got in touch with acer who told me to do a disk2disk, by holding alt and repeatedly pressing f10 when the splash screen appears. I have tried this several times today but haven't got anywhere.
To start with i was using quiet boot so when the acer logo and loading bar I did as I was told but all that happened is that after a couple of seconds the laptop started beeping until I stopped pressing the buttons. I then decided to try it without quiet boot and see if that was why I wasn't getting it right but without quiet boot no acer logo screen comes up at all. Can anyone help me do this? I really wanted to do it today before work as I've been having problems since the beginning of March.
Thanks

 

Is D2d enabled in the BIOS?

 

yes I checked that, I think i'm having trouble understanding exact;y when i'm supposed to push the buttons...

 

have you burned the recovery DvD ?
if windows starts ok use Alt+F10 and use the recovery consul.

 

I don't need a recovery cd, I just need to access disk2disk for the system to recover and I can't get it to work.

 

well if you had the disks you could repair the d2d partition
and get it working again.
as the disks will have an image of your HDD on it.

rather than trying to get something to work the hard way.
Alt+F10 or the disks is the only way to recover to default.
or buy an xp disk .

and to answer your last post. its times like this you need them disks. and if you had them, you wouldn't be asking us to help you.
best of luck,
Phil

 

Same old problem over again.....you deleted the Hidden Partition.

And from the quote above, you have all the answers anyway.

Can't help you

Bye,
Theo

 

right does your disk management look anything like this

 

All this d2d, reminds me of why I made a USB bootable XP drive.
If the internal drive or controler dies I still have a working computer.
Not for beginners, here's a link for ya'll guru's.
http://forums.ngine.de/viewforum.php?f=4&st=0&sk=t&sd=d&start=50

James

 

same here i have an external HDD with 98se,XP home,XP pro,vista basic and vista premium.
i also use office2007 of the HDD.
its a great thing to do and have as a back-up.
but not for beginners, but hopefully we can help and show them how-to.
Cheers James.
talk soon
Phil

EDIT:i use drive clone 3.1

 

i'm gonna setup mine to boot from my INTERNAL USB THUMB DRIVE

just to see if its faster than a hard disk

 

Hum, you have to do it to know ?
I suppose in your case you do ! )

James

 

I definitely haven't deleted the partition, just having trouble accessing it, checked the disk management and the partition is definitely there. All I need are the specifics on how to access the disk2disk as i'm not managing it, I don't know whether it's my timing or something just can't do it.

 

You lost alt+f10 function and you need to recover it. Check this thread. You can find several solutions there. It's a big thread so take you time and check every page.

 

you just know BigO is going to do it

 

have you tried setting the bios back to default ?
then try the Alt+F10 at start-up splash screen if that doesn't work try again when windows is running.