eRecovery Management Questions

I have a new Acer 3680 which came with Vista Home installed. I have since installed XP for dual booting. Since XP is running like a dream, I intend to wipe the bloaty Vista partition, and even the Vista recovery partition to save some space.

I have a couple of questions about eRecovery Management..
First if I use it to create a factory default disc (3.3GB DVD apparently), will it be okay to then wipe the recovery partition. ie If I ever want to come back to Vista, will I be able to boot from the DVD and start afresh, exactly as the PC came from Acer...? Is that correct? I assume so..
Second.. when I try to use the factory default backup in eRecovery Management in Vista, I get the error message "Burning failed. Please insert a blank DVD. Error code 3", no matter how many blank DVDs I put in, including two different brands.. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

 

With regards to your first issue, once you have burned the recovery DVDs, you will be able to restore the system to windows vista with the DVDs. You can also delete that recovery partition. I have done that for my Aspire 5112. No problems at all.

With regards to your second issue. I'm not sure why you are getting that error. Have you tried giving Acer support a call? They are quite helpful.

 

Thanks for the answer to my first query.

As for the second problem creating a factory default disc, is there any other program that will do it..? Would Acronis True Image be able to do the same thing? ie. Create a bootable backup of the factory installed partition.

Or is there the possibility of downloading eRecovery Management for Windows XP?

I don't understand why eRecovery Management in Vista is objecting to writing to the DVDs. I can write to them with the NTI burning software okay.

 

If you have Acronis, give it a shot, but don't buy it just to see if it would work. Unless you have money to spend

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the eRecovery Manager? As you mentioned NTI works fine so there's got to be some problem with the eRecovery Manager program.

Check the link below to download the eRecovery Manager:
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3680/

 

So let me see if I get this right... because i am curious too... if I make a recovery dvd or two, or how many are needed, of my current XP installation, can I get it back to the state it is, in case something happens? I mean get it back with the programs it has and all?

Mention: my Acer came with Linpus Linux on it, not Windows, I have installed Xp Pro on my own..

So can i make such a dvd and just bring my windows back to it's current state, ot the state of the backup?

 

Thank you so much for your advice. I installed eRecovery Management from the Euro FTP site link you gave me and it's working 100% now! I have made a factory default disc and can now get busy deleting Windows Vista. =)

Thanks a million. The Australian Acer support website did not seem to have eRecovery Management for download.

 

Yes, you should be able to without a problem.

 

Hey Fritz, the Canadian Acer site is not very helpful either! Thanks to some folks here, I got the link to the European ftp site.

Good to know that all works now. Cheers!

 

hi how r u guys ?
i had the same prob* with the backup of factory defualt dvd . i want to ask u guys if any one helping me.
how can i find the software that solve this prob* i think its the "Acer eDataSecurity Management" is it right or not ?

 

Sorry, I don't quite follow what your problem is. Are you having problems with your eRecovery DVDs?

 

yes i had aproblem with my eRecovery DVD .
the problem is : when i want to burn a factory defualt Image that stored on my notebook i had a massege with error code 3 same problem "fritz"

Code:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WCVOX9R3