The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    trying to restore acer aspire 5320 to factory settings

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by mrook82, Mar 5, 2011.

  1. mrook82

    mrook82 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I am so lost and confused with my laptop. I have an Acer Aspire 5320 laptop. I want to restore it back to factory settings. Im not sure how i did it but i have 3 partitions on my laptop. PQservice is one of them, i have looked up online how to recovery the acer erecovery tool from it, but i cant seem to figure it out. I have tried ALT + F10 (it doesnt work). I tried holding F8 (it doesnt work either). My laptop never came with a bootable cd......and I made the stupid mistake of not making one when I first got my laptop.

    So if someone out there knows or could help me figure out what to do......please help!!!!
     
    mrook82, Mar 5, 2011
    #1
  2. Mooly

    Mooly Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    43
    Messages:
    353
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Can you still acess Windows OK ?
    If so try searching for ERecovery in the list of "all programs" from the start/run box and see if you can access it from there.

    ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/des...0 - 2.4/Acer eRecovery Management english.pdf

    To use the hidden partition using ALT and F10 read the last pages in the above link. You must press them immediately after power on before it begins booting to Windows.
     
    Mooly, Mar 5, 2011
    #2
  3. mrook82

    mrook82 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    yes i can access windows, but when i go to erecoveryand try to do it that way it starts the process, but then it just ends up restarting my laptop
     
    mrook82, Mar 5, 2011
    #3
  4. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    7,729
    Messages:
    8,722
    Likes Received:
    2,231
    Trophy Points:
    331
    Since you can still boot to Windows why don't you use eRecovery to burn recovery DVDs and use those.
     
    downloads, Mar 5, 2011
    #4
  5. Full-English

    Full-English Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    1,227
    Messages:
    1,512
    Likes Received:
    8
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Have you played about with the windows installation previously, if you have say reinstalled windows not using acers recovery tool, this can screw up the recovery partition.
     
    Full-English, Mar 5, 2011
    #5
  6. Zeptinune

    Zeptinune Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    81
    Messages:
    310
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    This is what I would do. Burn yourself OS reset discs and use them. Backup your data first.
     
    Zeptinune, Mar 5, 2011
    #6
  7. mrook82

    mrook82 Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    3
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    thank you for the help. i made the recovery discs and restored my laptop from them.
     
    mrook82, Mar 5, 2011
    #7
  8. Zeptinune

    Zeptinune Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    81
    Messages:
    310
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    Keep the discs safe and by the way. You cant delete the unmounted recovery partition on your computer either. If you do you wont be able to use the discs to restore your computer again, they'll just stall when installing your OS... So don't edit any of that.
     
    Zeptinune, Mar 5, 2011
    #8