eRecovery doesn't complete of recovery

eRecovery doesn't complete of recovery


The eRecovery was used for many time in the past, by hot keys and DVD's, and was successful everything.

A week ago, when copying a large folder(1.7GB) of photo frames to 6 UFD's, the PC shut down after copying 5 times & restarted by itself. And the copy/paste function was disabled after the restart.

The PC behaved peculiarly from that point on, such as shut down the monitor and/or optical drive not functioning....

eRecovery was run again & went on smoothly. But it quit before completing, quit right prior to coming to the last part where time zone & names...are configured. It restarted the PC automatically and showed a message saying that WINDOWS COULD NOT BE INSTALLED DUE TO INCIDENTAL SHUT DOWN ....

The eRecovery DVD's were run then. They were created right after the purchase of the PC & used a few times. Everything went on smoothly just as it did by the hot keys, but then, it quit right before running the last part & restarted, & the same message popped up. And, of course, could not boot into Windows.

Right now, BIOS is working, hot keys for eRecovery are working, optical drive is working. Safe Mode is dead because C drive is formatted by eRecovery & OS is not properly installed.

I have eRecovery DVD's, 2 sets. A set of 3 disks which recovers the OS only. And a set of 6 disks which is of the entire PC of its factory default status.

My questions:
1. What and how I have to do to recovery the OS properly?
2. Are the DVD's useful at this stage for the recovery and how to use them?

Thanks.

 

It may not be an eRecovery issue at all though - make sure that the HDD is fine (check SMART status).
Try running Ubuntu from a thumb drive and see if the computer runs fine - if it does then it is a problem with recovery, but of it doesn't, that would indicate that it's actually a hardware issue.

 

Thank you!

First.
I don't think it is the eRecovery issue either. I somehow guess and believe it is a problem within the C partition. And that is why I am thinking about FORMATTING the C drive.

The problem that stops me doing so is that Acer says the C drive should never be touched in any manner.

I wonder if anybody has actually formatted the C drive prior to running eRecovery?

Then.
I would try to run Ubuntu from the thumb drive.

And for the same purpose, would it indicate the same thing if Windows7 can be installed on a different partition of the same HD?

Thanks.

 

I did format the C partition and even I have replaced an entire HDD with a new one (the latter will rid you of a hidden recovery partition). That said eRecovery can still be run from a DVD regardless of the fact that C drive had been formated or the drive had been replaced.

Installing Windows on a different partition might be possible even if the drive is failing - if the surface of the platter is failing in one place and you install Windows on another partition this might work fine, but you will still be using a failing HDD nonetheless.

 

Thank you very, very much for such a good news!

I have had Windows 7 Pro. 32b. installed on a different partition of the same hard drive and have had a test run. It looks just like another computer. So, the hardware is good. And the eRecovery issue stays with the eRecovery sustem or with some sectors of the C drive.

Tell you what I'll do. I'll take the original hard drive out of the PC and put another one in there (a hard drive taken out of another PC and formatted) and try to run the eRecovery DVD's. and shall come back with a report.

Thank you!

 

Sorry to report that the installation by eRecovery DVD failed.
Right after " ... partition 1 is selected ...." a message popped up notifying the failure as the one above.

What is the 0xa000000e, the reason of the failure?

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks.

 

A quick Google on "Acer erecovery error 0xa000000e" took me to the following link :

Acer Aspire Restore Failed Reason 0xa000000e | Barry Wheeler

It suggests you need to delete any existing partitions before you run the eRecover program? If running eRecover from a completely blank drive (no partitions whatsoever) doesn't work, then from a quick read around Google, I'd suggest starting with a blank hard drive, "FDisk" 2 partitions (try NTFS but if that doesn't work format both as FAT32 - allegedly works - but make sure that the first partition is at least 15GB and the second somewhere around at least 40GB?

Any good to you? (It's late and I'm tired, but I'm trying...)

 

Thank you for helping!

I'll try what you have suggested and come back with the results.

Than you again.