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I have an Acer Aspire 9410-2079, its about a year old.

I need to do a complete restore (default setings) on my laptop, but it needs a password. Well I think i might have made a mistkae when I first put it in a year ago. I want to keep my D: drive in tack, but the C drive needs tro be wiped.

Only thing is, I cant get eRecovery to run without a password.

I tried searching and the only things I find are:

Like many others, the first time that you launch eRecovery on your laptop you have use a password. Then the months the years passed, and you need eRecovery, but now you forgot the password...

Note : The method can be very different with your model, but the principle remains the same one, there must be a file which stores your password, and it must be in one of the most recent files since you changed your password.

Note 2: Vista compatibility

This problem is solved very easily, makes a right click on the partedit32 icon, goes in properties, clicks on the tab compatibility and set the compatibility on winxp or win98.

For Vista and Xp add run as an administrator.

Method n°1 :

1. Download Partedit32 launch the program and change the type of the partition pqservice from 27 to 7.

2. Restart the computer press F2 on boot to enter the bios, and then disable the option (d2drecovery).

3. Restart and press F8 several times until you reach the Windows recovery menu, choose the option : command prompt. The windows open and now there is a letter for a new drive, x for example.

4. Type "dir" and seek the file "aimdrs.dat". Then type this command at the prompt : "Copy aimdrs.dat C:"

5. Restart your computer normally, open a notepad browse for your file open it and recover your password. Do not forget to restore your partition pqservice in its initial state with partedit32, and to reactivate the D2D recovery option in the bios.

Method n°2 :

With a Linux boot CD make :

1. Cd /mnt

2. mkdir acer

3. mount - T vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/acer

4. cat /tools/aimdrs.dat

Here is your password.

Warning : for more recent laptop with SATA disc replace "hda1" with "sda1".

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and

IN the recovery partion there is a file
\TOOLS\AIMDRS.DAT
which contains the password.

Now you have to get in!
I think a decent partition manager should enable you to browse a partitioon (partitionmagix, acronis disk director,etc.)
otherwise you have to takethe risk and set D2D on in the BIOS,press Alt-F10 just after BIOS screens and press Ctrl-C when the system boots into the recovery partition to break out of the autoexec.bat.
After that is just:
TYPE TOOLS/AIMDRS.DAT

Note that this may be slightly different for your model, but the principle will be the same: there must be a file that stores the password, and since you changed the pwd it must be one of the few most recent files in the partition.

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I tried to make sense of both and I came up with nothing.

Please help my out by giving me a step by step instructions on how to recover my eRecovery password.

I didnt know what information to supply, but if you need any just let me know.
-Jay

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JayDee07, Jan 13, 2009

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TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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Default password is six zeroes: 000000.

Try it

Cheers,
Theo

TeeJay 44, Jan 13, 2009

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I did. It isnt 000000

JayDee07, Jan 13, 2009

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Did you create your recovery disks? If so, use those instead. You will get the same result. Also, the first time you use the eRecovery application after restoring from the disks, it will again ask you to set a password. This will reset the password in the recovery partition.

paten, Jan 13, 2009

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