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    PQSERVICE Rebuild

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by LouArnold, Nov 16, 2010.

  1. LouArnold

    LouArnold Notebook Consultant

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    This is about an Aspire 4530. I have the recovery CDs.

    I am close to rebuilding the PQSERVICE patition, but I don't understand a few things.
    What software or hardware does ALT-F10 invoke? What are the next 2-3 steps in the action chain from there?

    When I enter ALT-F10 on boot, I get the message "NTLDR is missing". When I look at the partitions, I see that PQSERVICE was set active. The computer boots this way until I set the 2nd partition (ACER) active again. Its clearly looking for the NT loader in PQSERVICE and not finding it.

    Should it be looking for NTLDR or something else? And if something else, what is that?
    What does that loader bring in? That software must decide whether to boot something from PQSERVICE or active and boot from the ACER partition again. What is/are the file name(s) of the software that does this?

    For those that have an intact PQSERVICE partition, you can mount the PQSERVICE partition to see its contents: log in as an administrator and then use mbrwrwin.exe (from the web) in the command:
    mbrwrwin mount hd0:1 K:
    This mounts hard drive 0, partition 1 as drive K: Don't forget the colon after the drive letter. You can then see its contents with Windows explorer.
     
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    Has anyone actually succeeded in taking an image to CD or DVD and then restoring their laptop PQSERVICE partition from those DVDs or CDs? I am not referring to the recovery CDs, I'm referring to DVDs that you made only of this partition, with imaging software?

    When you did this, did you destroy, wipe out, or make unreadable what was there before you restored it from your CDs or DVDs?
     
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