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    Recovery problems on Aspire 3002wlmi

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Alola, Feb 25, 2007.

  1. Alola

    Alola Newbie

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    Hi,

    I am selling my laptop (Acer Aspire 3002wlmi) to a friend's mother and want to give her a clean install... However, I bought this laptop from somebody else myself and no recovery cds/dvds came with it. I sent this guy an email yesterday and he swears he himself never got any cds or dvds when he bought it.

    So I downloaded the laptop's manual and read about eRecovery - this tool was not on the laptop anymore, so I downloaded eManager. Unfortunately, this does not display the function eRecovery anymore.

    Then I wondered if I even had the hidden partition... Partition Magic does show me that I have got an extra partition, it is approximately 2 GB and hidden. In Bios, D2Drecovery is enabled, but when entering Alt + F10 while starting up, nothing happens.

    So here I am now, all out of ideas, hoping that somebody has an idea of what I should do now!
    Please help me,
    Thank you very much!!

    Alola
     
    Alola, Feb 25, 2007
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  2. gurujosh

    gurujosh Notebook Enthusiast

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    make the partition active it will initate the recovery program after the install make it inactive and you should have a fresh install on your machine
     
    gurujosh, Feb 28, 2007
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  3. Alola

    Alola Newbie

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    First of all, thank you very much for your reply... But how do you make the partition active? Thanks in advance!!
     
    Alola, Mar 1, 2007
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