Enabling eRecovery on fresh partition

Hi all

So I purchased my aspire 3680 from another student at school--he managed to get me a super deal on it, but also promised to wipe the hard drive clean, install vista fresh for me. Naturally, I agreed, not realizing that, by doing so, he deleted the recovery partitions for eRecovery.

So now I have a single partition in vista, but I'm trying to get the eRecovery to work. are there ways to set up the recovery partition? Also, I'm pretty confused with all this D2D settings, alt-F10...my bios seems pretty limited, no D2D or any of these settings to play with. (bios 1.3508..haha I upgraded to a T5200 in my 3680 )

 

If your friend wiped the hard drive clean, that includes the recovery partition. Thus, you will need to contact Acer support to purchase a recovery disc for your unit to use.

 

EXACTLY CORRECT...

it cannot be done for less than $200 for HDD RECOVERY which might involve disassembly of the HDD.

buy the disks from ACER... or just buy a RETAIL COPY of XP and download all the drivers and make your own driver disk!!

YOUR SCHOOL MAY HAVE XP INSTALLATION CDS FOR PURCHASE THRU THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT,,, OR YOU MIGHT FIND A GOOD DEAL ON A STUDENT DICSOUNT VERSION OF XP

most of the copys of XP being sold privately are either illeagel as hell or the product key used to register the copy of windows belongs to someone else and is not transferable to a different PC the only way to by a non retail (OEM version) is to buy it with a MAJOR HARDWARE COMPONENT like a motherboard or CPU,,, but some vendors used to skirt that issue by selling it with almost any internal hardware component.. but any copy from a different laptop manufacturer is going to fail to install due to not being installed on the hardware the OEM custom XP disk was designed for.

 

I have the vista anytime upgrade Cd, as well as my CD key for windows vista that came with my laptop. Do you think I can do a clean reinstall with this CD and key, and then get all my drivers updated, software added--then using something like TrueImage to create a backup?. When I go into "system information" in vista--it seems like my installation isn't an OEM installation...no "ACER" logo anywhere, which makes sense since the person I bought this from may have reinstalled vista before selling the computer to me....I don't really want to have to buy CD's for the sake of being able to use eRecovery...I'll probably do a clean wipe of the computer before this semester anyway, keep things fresh

Thanks

 

True, most of the Acer-specific drivers can be downloaded from their website.
And there's always other methods of getting a "recovery disc" - if you have Vista Business or Ultimate, you can use the Complete PC Backup tool to make your own restorable backup.

 

i think that the ANYTIME UPGRADE DISK will work fine to reinstall a clean VISTA INSTALL... the KEY you register with determines which version of VISTA gets loaded.

then just install the ACER DRIVERS (FOR YOUR MODEL's installed hardware) those you can download from

support.acer-euro.com

where they update the drivers before any other sites!

 

You can create your own Vista install disk by using vlite.

http://www.vlite.net

Forum: (A must read through for all vlite first timers)

http://www.msfn.org/board/vLite-f153.html