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    Dead Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by frapso, Jan 3, 2010.

  1. frapso

    frapso Newbie

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    Posted this in acer forum but got no reply...My acer 7720 hard drive failed,I have ordered the recovey disk from acer as I cant restore from the hard drive,and will be buying a new drive. will I have any problem installing the recovery disk on the new drive? I assume I will lose the ability to use alt f10 due to the new hard drives mbr not being acerized....thanks for any help
     
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    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    From what I read alt+f10 launches recovery from the HDD, in that case yes you'll lose that ability. Now the big question is... How much of an "out-of-box" experience are the recovery disks you've ordered going to restore? I'm wondering if it's going to put it just like it was when you first turned it on, with all the acer utilities and such. But no, you shouldn't have any trouble, just pop it in and "Press any key to boot from CD...".
     
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    Thank you very much for the reply,will give it a go when the disks arrive.
     
    frapso, Jan 4, 2010
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