My 5610Z was not set up correctly, help me set it up

I bought my 5610-2273 from Best Buy last year - it was a closeout/display model, and I got a good deal on it. It has the T2060, GMA950, 80GB, 1GB and DVD burner.

However, they didn't do a proper restore on it before I bought it, and so I haven't been able to utilize it to its full potential. I want to do a full restore, but pressing Alt-F10 doesn't work either. Anyone know how I can do that (enable the hidden recovery partition?)

Anyway, the sleep/suspend mode doesn't work, the small keys above the keyboard don't work, and the media player keys on the side don't work either. If this laptop has a "quick boot" mode for playing DVDs without loading Windows, that doesn't work either. The card reader didn't work, but I found the drivers and made it work.

Any help would be appreciated. I'd especially love to be able to suspend it, since Vista takes a long time to load up.

 

Hmm. If the Alt-F10 partition will not boot their are a few ways round it. First of all go into the bios and check that the Alt-F10 recovery option is enables, then when you restart it keep pressing Alt and F10 at the same time untill the Windows screen comes up just to ensure it is not working (the window of "opportunity" for this to work is very small!).
Secondly to reduce the need to reinstall the whole machine, download all of the missing programs from the acer site Here
The main one you need is the launchmanager which controls all of the extra keys.
If none of this works. Boot of a cd to a partition manager and set the hidden partition as active and reboot. It should then run straight into the e-recovery (you may need to reset this so that the C:/ partition is set to active after this has finished).
I would start with the first fix. Hope this helps