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    Recreating the Acer recovery partition

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by tomswaelen, Mar 7, 2009.

  1. tomswaelen

    tomswaelen Newbie

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    For reasons that are too long to explain, I managed to destroy this partition on the hard drive of my Acer 4539G laptop. So no PQservice partition and the original Acer MBR is gone too. All I have left is a couple of FAT32 partitions.

    I do have the contents of the PQservice partition on a USB stick.

    Is there a way to recreate the PQservice partition, so that Acer's eRecovery would work again?
     
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    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    Did you ever burn the Acer recovery disks?
     
    TeeJay 44, Mar 7, 2009
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    brummyfan Notebook Enthusiast

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    tomswaelen Newbie

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    No, the partitions and the MBR were compromised before I could do that...

    Like I said, I did manage to back the PQservice partition up, onto a USB stick.

    Is there a way to fix all of this?
     
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    kiriakost Notebook Deity

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    If you managed to backup it , i do not see your problem to restore it ..
     
    kiriakost, Mar 8, 2009
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    tomswaelen Newbie

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    Because it's all I have: all the partitions on the hard drive are gone, I don't know how to recreate the Master Boot Record, and if there are other things I would have to do.

    For example, the Acer had a C and D partition, and I don't if that's a prerequisite for making it all work again...
     
    tomswaelen, Mar 9, 2009
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  7. kiriakost

    kiriakost Notebook Deity

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    Just read my signature .
     
    kiriakost, Mar 9, 2009
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