Factory Default Restore

If I get a new internal hard drives will the Factory Default Restore Disk work? Anyone know? I'm using an Aspire 5920G and also does someone have a step to step guide for upgrading the CPU for this computer? And also some good deals on T7300 CPU or better

 

Wait, do you have recovery disk (DVD) or Factory Default Restore Disk is on new hard disk? Acer puts secret partition on hard disk for reinstalling OS and you need manually to create recovery disk from Acer eRecovery software.

If you have recovery disk (DVD), press F12 in boot screen (Acer logo), chose cd-rw/dvd-rw for booting and wait that disk recovery disk load, so you can install Vista again (I guess you have Vista Home Premium).

 

I have the recovery DVD that was made from the eRecovery Software. I was wondering if it would work with a brand new hard drive

 

Yes, it will work, hard disk has nothing with it . Just do what I typed, and start installing new Vista. It will need time to load everything but once is done you'll get Acer eRecovery screen and will ask you first to chose language.

 

just incase of probs,,, don't wipe the original drive until after you get the new one up and running,, you might also consider a CHEAP USB enclousre for your OLD drive.... i got 1 from geeks.com for $8.99 ,, actually bought one of both flavors,, IDE/PATA and SATA,,

and if you do run into problems you can use a program like ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE,,, to mirror your old drive to the neew one,,, thus transfering the hidden PQSERVICE partition... then use the FACTORY RESTORE DVDS to effectivly wipe the old info OFF of the NEW DRIVE,, and you will have the hidden partition on the new drive as well..

then when all is working flawlessly... you can hook the USB enclosure w/ the OLD drive up to the lappy.... and format...

giving you a bit of portable storage


later,
bigO

 

haha yea thanks for the answers...but can someone answer my other two questions? "someone have a step to step guide for upgrading the CPU for this computer? And also some good deals on T7300 CPU or better"

 

Depends from what country you are (for good deals) .
For upgrading CPU will check and if I found something I'll left link .

 

United States XP

 

not worked on that model yet...

but if it's anything like the 5315 it's too easy not to do!!!! see the thunbnail at bottom of first post... also has a STEP-BY-STEP for this model (may be similar)


EBAY,,, hard to find much better deals w/o a whole lotta looking,,, asking,,, and begging

later,
bigO

 

i've got a new (2 weeks) 5920. i made the factory default disc should i make a recovery disc too?? what is there on the factory defalt disc?? vista and acer software??

 

make the DRIVER AND APPLICATION disk too,, just incase!!!

 

Hi there, I bought a new hard drive to install in my Acer TravelMate 4280. I used the Factory default image DVD to install XP on the machine. It loads the RAMdisk and starts with the recovery. The C:\ drive is formatted and windows xp is decompressed.

But after this when the DVD is ejected and the system reboots on its own, it does not want to initialise. The monitor display a black screen with a flickering horizontal cursor.

Using an external mounting I have check the content of the drive and it seems as if all the system files is on it. Any ideas?!

Regards johan

 

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