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    Reconstructing the hidden recovery partition with the DVD?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by inachot, Nov 10, 2008.

  1. inachot

    inachot Newbie

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    I just wanted to know if there was a way to reconstruct the hidden recovery partition with the recovery dvds? The thing is that when i bought the notebook I noticed the partition and thought it was just garbage(how fool), so i totally erased everything, the good thing is that i made the recovery dvds with Erecovery before that.
    I'd be grateful if somebody could help me.
     
    inachot, Nov 10, 2008
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    Full-English Notebook Deity

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  3. inachot

    inachot Newbie

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    It doesn't seem to work, the cd that i downloaded seems to just format the D: partition and nothing else...
    I think it could be done, i mean restoring the pqservice partition, actually i did try copying the files of the dvds into a partition and then booting that partition, but everything worked up to a point where a message said "restore.dat" missing. However i doublechecked that the file was there.... I dunno why i failed :( . Any ideas?
     
    inachot, Nov 11, 2008
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    ATG 2x4 Super Moderator

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    I don't think you can recreate PQSERVICE this way. The Recovery CDs are made to to recover your system not to recreate the PQSERVICE.
    Copying files won't do it, you don't know if the directory structure you have on the DVD is EXACTLY the same as it was in PQSERVICE also I'm pretty sure PQ had some MBR/startup config files which was NOT copied on the DVD(because they're not needed)...
    If you have the DVD why do you need to create PQ anyway? If you're afraid of losing/breaking the DVD make an DVD IMAGE and put it on a external hdd or something and that way you can always burn a new recovery DVD if the first one got corrupted..
     
    ATG, Nov 12, 2008
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    Last week I have lost my data from my windows partition and do not know how to recover my lost data.My friend suggests me to use Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery software.This partition recovery software helps me to recover my lost data.This software has GUI interface which makes it very easy to use.
     
    paonish, Mar 30, 2009
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    Banderasky Notebook Enthusiast

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    What's the relationship between partition recovery with data loss?Stellar Phoenix could recover partition?
    the guy need to reconstruct the hidden recovery partition with the recovery dvds. Actually, using recovery cd is not bad, but a partition manager software is much better.
     
    Banderasky, Mar 31, 2009
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