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    Help Big Time Please

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by christina119, Dec 9, 2008.

  1. christina119

    christina119 Newbie

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    I Have an acer aspire 5100 but when to format hard drive and do full recovery but nothing went on the disc does any one have a copy of the recovery disc to help me out
    amd turion
    64 mobile
    1gb ram
    80g hard drive


    Please please help me
    Thanks
    Christina :confused:
     
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    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    When the computer starts up and is on the acer screen press ALT+F10 together this should (hopefully as long as you have not deleted your hidden recovery partition) take you into a recovery console which will then enable you to restore your system.

    If when pressing ALT+F10 it won't work, you many need to go into your bios and ensure D2D recovery is enabled.
     
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    christina119 Newbie

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    hi i already formatted it so it has nothing on it at all
     
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    If you've deleted the recovery partition, then you may need to call acer and buy some backup disks, or do you know someone with a copy of windows, if you do then you can use this, then use your product key that came with the laptop.
     
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    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    So, without the hidden partition or recovery disks (that you should have burnt).....you canno't recover your Operating System because there is nothing to recover from.

    Best to contact Acer and see if they will sell you recovery disks.

    More burnt fingers. Sigh.

    Good luck,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Dec 9, 2008
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    I think they tried to burn the disks thinking they had burnt alright but they don't work.
     
    Full-English, Dec 9, 2008
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    Well with my hp i dont use a driver cd i just install windown then download the drivers and everything is ok you could download windows server something i dont remeber wich one its a free trial till you get a windows cd.
     
    OutCtrl_85, Dec 9, 2008
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