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    Need help with recovery disks for my Acer Aspire 5517 Laptop

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by miss1987, Aug 31, 2011.

  1. miss1987

    miss1987 Newbie

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    Hi, I have a Acer Aspire 5517 Laptop and I need to restore the hard drive back to its original state. When the acer logo screen appears, pressing F2 does not work it just goes to the windows boot manager error screen where it asks you to start windows in safe mode, start windows normally, etc...then it just restarts itself. I have tried pressing the F2 button, pressing the del button, tried putting the system disk in and rebooting but nothing. Can anyone help me and let me know how can I get this laptop to boot from the cdrom drive where the recovery disk is in? Thank you.
     
    miss1987, Aug 31, 2011
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  2. Mooly

    Mooly Notebook Evangelist

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    When you say it restarts does it boot into Windows ?

    If so, have you tried running ERecovery from there to do a factory restore using the hidden partition on the HDD.

    Pressing F2 should take you into the BIOS where you can change the boot order... but you say that's not happening.

    One of those things where you need to be sat in front of it...

    F8... and last known good configuration worth a try maybe ?
     
    Mooly, Aug 31, 2011
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  3. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    If you want to do factory restore, try pressing Alt+F10 at the same time while acer logo showing.
     
    ellalan, Aug 31, 2011
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  4. .NetRolller 3D

    .NetRolller 3D Notebook Deity

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    Try doing a CMOS clear (remove or short out the CMOS battery for a few seconds).
     
    .NetRolller 3D, Aug 31, 2011
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