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    format acer aspire 5610 problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by craigy0505, Dec 21, 2008.

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    craigy0505 Newbie

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    Hi
    I have an Acer Aspire 5610 and after countless problems I need to format the drive and start over. Problem is on looking online I realised I dont have any recovery discs that were made the first time I turned it on. I also heard you could just format the drive by putting a windows installer disc in the drive and rebooting but when i do this it doesnt read from the disc and just reboots normally.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks
     
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    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    If your notebook still has the recovery partition intact, you can burn a recovery disc and use that.

    If you're using a MS Install Disc, then make sure in the BIOS, the CD/DVD-ROM drive has been given first priority in the Boot Order. (The HDD is given 1st priority as default)
     
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    how would i find this recovery partition and use it if it exists? i know very little about the formatting process
     
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    Run > diskmgmt.msc, and see if there is a small partition (probably in EISA configuration). If there is, you can recover or whatever via D2D recovery. Download your notebook's user manual, from the Acer Euro Support site, that might have some useful info as well.

    I am not an expert at this, try searching there have been numerous threads on this, and some have proper procedures posted in 'em.
     
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