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    Need help with a new "used" 7735

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by soundhd, Dec 26, 2011.

  1. soundhd

    soundhd Newbie

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    Just bought a "used" Aspire 7735 for my wife - used). She has wanted a laptop for a long time. It is very nice. Everything seems to be working fine. Have an issue that maybe someone can give us advice on how to get around it.
    1. Trying to make a Acer recovery disc (DVD) (window keeps popping up saying we should make a recovery disc before using the laptop) and when I start the process (says it will take 3 DVD's) it starts the burn process but after 3 minutes it stops with an error code of OX205 Burning failed. Have tried a couple different DVD-R's with the same result. Has a TSST corp CDDVD TS-L633B (drive "D")



    thanks (an older guy not so good with computers)
     
    soundhd, Dec 26, 2011
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    .NetRolller 3D Notebook Deity

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    The DVD drive could be defective. Try burning a different (non-recovery) DVD.
     
    .NetRolller 3D, Dec 26, 2011
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    Well, was able to burn a DVD with a couple of photos on it using the Windows DVD Maker program that is on the desktop.....any idea what else could be the problem?

     
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    Did some more investigating and it looks like the laptop's hardrive needs to have a special partition set up for the Acer Erecovery program to work...anyone know how to do that?
     
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    You can't do that- it's either there or not. It's a hidden recovery partition
    PQSERVICE (it can bee seen from disk-management in control panel).

    If someone deleted this partition at some point you won't be able to burn recovery DVDs since there's no source.
     
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