Restoring Factory Defaults, Aspire 5930g

Hello! I'm in the need of some help here.

I decided to restore my aspire 5930g laptop to factory defaults, and started out with creating the restoration discs. At this point, i wasn't really aware that one could restore from the harddrive.

So i booted up the discs and started the restoration process. But now, the dialog tells me to insert the third disc, while i only have two. What should i do? I could try to kill the restoration process and start over from the harddrive, but im afraid to harm the system.

Any help appreciated! Thanks!

 

I honestly don't know how to advise you properly.....

My lappie responds to Alt+F10 at bootup still (after almost 2 years of constant use).

I have left the PQ Service partition alone always.

Maybe another member can advise.....

Here we go again.

 

Thank you for caring. Im about to force-reboot it soon, whats the worst thing that can happen? :O

 

I have not been there so I canno't give you an answer/solution.

My advise is to wait a bit.

Guys will come online later and maybe help???

 

If there is no way that you can continue, i.e. no options to continue without the said 3rd disk, I think your only option is to try a factory reset from the hard drive.

I can't see there being any permanent damage to the system. I've read of other cases of people not being able to complete a re-install of the OS for one reason or another, and the solution to fix this most times is to start again.

Try the system restore from the HDD, Alt+F10, if this isn't working, go into your bios and make sure the D2D Recovery option is enabled.

 

Thanks guys. I finally decided to force-reboot the pc, and it turned out not to harm the system.


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