I think i Messed up my 5920G from disc clean-up of "D" drive....

I did a disc clean-up of the "D" drive and now it is totally empty.... What the heck did i just remove... My 5920G wouldn't start afterwards... It was acting really messed up... Just got her to start twice now after 4-hours.

Is there any way to get new "D" drive backup files made.... As the "D" drive is now showing empty. There are Zero files in it.

 

Looks like you remove some system file.Try Recover

 

On my 5920G the D drive is just a separate partition to store files. Perhaps you damaged other stuff on the hard drive as well.
Did you say that everything is fine again after 4 hours?
Edit: There shouldn't be anything important in the D drive. Just found that I just stores the backup files for Acer erecovery.

 

Bro Vista have bug.Normally we select everything to clean by Disk cleaner,but problem is if we select delete error reports option sometimes vista delete all system files tooo...So after you shut down the system it will never start again

I have experience about that error

 

what did you do afterwards?

 

>what did you do afterwards?

I kept restarting it, and restarting it, then finally it booted!! That's when i noticed i cleared out the "D" drive files.

 

If you want a fresh windows install then knowing acers there should be a hidden partition called pqservice which will allow you to recover your notebook to factory spec. All you have to do is hit ALT+F10 at the post screen and then follow the instructions. I am of course assuming you didn't delete this partition! Also this will only recover windows on drive "c" it will not touch drive "d" which is the data partition.

As for recovering the lost files on the "d" drive you could try and find one of those file recovery programs and see how much of the files are still intact and if they can be recovered. Whatever you do, don't format that "d" partition otherwise you will make file recovery much harder.

 

Is there a way i can make a set of new files to be stored in the "D" drive from the current ones on my notebook.. I think the "D" drive had one file that said startup?? I would like to get that back in there.

 

i only use the D drive(which is only a partition)for mp3s pic's and genral storage.
so when i do a recovery (Alt+F10)D: is left alone and C:is nice and clean. which is handy as you can burn so many disk's it gets silly

EDIT: i also have all my updates stored on D: so i don't have to go hunting for them all over again.which is bit of a grind.

 

>so when i do a recovery (Alt+F10)D: is left alone and C:is nice and clean.

I never tried that (Alt + F10) does it erase all prior settings and files to a earlier time? ...or just change what you want... Whats the differance in useing that method over windows restore points?

 

you have to muck around with it a 16year old geek did it for me..
yes Alt+F10 restores back to factory condition.if you haven't formatted the hidden partion

 

Can i hit Alt+F10 just to see if it is still there.. Without starting a restore?

 

yes. you do get the option to exit without changing anything.
hit Alt+F10 at the splash screen.

if you still have eRocovery loaded you can use Alt+F10 when in windows to burn an image of the recovery partition which is bootable. like a copy of an OS disk

you also get the option to burn all the third party software as well, empowering tek stuff.nortans,power dvd and all that junk.

i did a test with the image i burnt to DVD and it installed xp and it left the recovery partition alone. which was the big worry.

 

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guys my 5920G has stopped working ;-( , it suddenly crashed and the blue screen came up..the error screen...i have know i dea y it happen...can u guys help me out...asap

 

it takes the C: partion back to factory default. so you have a fresh install of the OS.and if you saved all your drivers to D: partion (acerdata) there safe

 

Hi I did a similar thing as you did but now i can not use my erecovery at all
when i try to back up i get an error 0xc0000003 the file doesnot seem to be there. how can i i have tried to recover erecovery but it is not listed in the
"reinstall aplication drivers" I downloaded a program to restore deleted files but i am unsure where to look or what file to recover. i found a file called erecovery but it turned out to be NTI CD burner.. any help you could give i would appreciate it very much
thank you Kurtis

 

here's my experience:

I tried compressing my C drive which houses Vista. It compressed MBR and never booted. I tried all means but vista thinks it fixed mbr with bootrec/ fixmbr n all the jazz! but I had to reinstall the whole stuff .