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    Aspire 5315 Help

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Asimof, Jun 14, 2009.

  1. Asimof

    Asimof Newbie

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    Hi,
    I have an Aspire 5315 running Vista, which belongs to a family member. He bought it over 12 months ago and did not make any recovery disks. When you turn it on it now will not boot at all, saying "disk read error". I have formated the partition (leaving the recovery partition alone) and was going to install Vista basic instead. Before i do this is their anything else i could try to make use of the recovery partition, or is this dead now.

    Thanks :confused:
     
    Asimof, Jun 14, 2009
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    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    Have you tried pressing ALT+F10 on the Acer screen when the laptop starts up. If this doesn't work, make sure d2d recovery is enabled in the bios. If this still fails to work then the recovery partition will be very hard to get working again, but If you have a copy of Vista that you are going to use, I would personally use this instead of the recovery partition as you won't get any of the bloatware that comes with a factory recovered acer laptop.
     
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    Hi,
    I have tried the F10, no luck. I think a will do like you said and delete the recovery partition and re flrmat the whole drive.
    Thanks
     
    Asimof, Jun 15, 2009
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