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    Problems with the DVD Drive and eRecovery 5920G

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Avishee, Jan 17, 2009.

  1. Avishee

    Avishee Notebook Guru

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    Hi.
    after a year and a half of using the Aspire 5920, i wanted to reformat the thing.
    I never did any recovery, and just now notice that i have to burn my own Vista DVD in order to reformat.
    Anyway, I popped in the bank DVD, went to "creat factory defult CD" and waited... after a few tense minutes where the "Burn" bar didnt make any progress, the messege said "cant burn the DVD, please enter a blank DVD and press OK".... after trying 4-5 Different DVDs, all out of the box, restarting and all, I gave up.

    Is there an alternative to bunning the DVD? can I use a flash drive instead?

    thanks.
     
    Avishee, Jan 17, 2009
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  2. Full-English

    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    When you start the computer up, on the acer screen press ALT+F10, this brings up a recovery console (provided you havn't deleted the hidden recovery partition), no dvd's needed. It will recover the computer from the hidden recovery partition to factory default. This has Vista on it, plus all of your drivers and apps. Before you do it, make sure D2D recovery is enabled in the BIOS.
     
    Full-English, Jan 17, 2009
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  3. Egghead

    Egghead Notebook Enthusiast

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    Are you using DVD-RW? (Re-writables) I trashed a few cheap DVD-RWs until I tried a high quality branded DVD-R and it burned the necessary image first time, then the recovery/reformat operation worked fine.
     
    Egghead, Jan 19, 2009
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