Acer restore.

Warriorhazzard

Warriorhazzard

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I have an Acer Laptop, that I want to restore. I restored it once, but I can no longer restore it again.

Aspire 3618AWLCi

Intel Proccessor M
60GB
512MB

I click on the restore button and it does not open the prog.

ANy help? :D
 
Hi if you leave it and give it some time say a week then you should be able too restore it. I had that problem on my old HP and thats what i did. Hope this help.

Dan
 
easyshare123 said:
Hi if you leave it and give it some time say a week then you should be able too restore it. I had that problem on my old HP and thats what i did. Hope this help.

Dan
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So it prevents me to Restore it more than once in a week. Because I restored it a couple of days ago..

IM confused. Mad. ...and all that stuff. lol
 
Which kind of "restore" are you talking about?
1. Manufacturer Restore - usually a feature in most manufactured comps that allows you to restore your computer to the same state it was when you originally bought it, this includes any pre-installed software (HP and Dell puts lots of stuff on the sys.restore).

2. Windows System Restore - feature in XP that lets you restore your computer back to a specific restore point.

for the 1st one - usually there is a specific partition on your comp that contains all the files needed for system restore. If you delete/format this partition, you will no longer be able to restore.

for the 2nd one - System Restore is a very wasteful operation and doing a reformat and reinstall (provided you have a bootable windows XP install CD) cleans out your system and provides better performance and sometimes a Windows system restore can cause more probs than it fixes.
 
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gamerman4 said:
Which kind of "restore" are you talking about?
1. Manufacturer Restore - usually a feature in most manufactured comps that allows you to restore your computer to the same state it was when you originally bought it, this includes any pre-installed software (HP and Dell puts lots of stuff on the sys.restore).

2. Windows System Restore - feature in XP that lets you restore your computer back to a specific restore point.

for the 1st one - usually there is a specific partition on your comp that contains all the files needed for system restore. If you delete/format this partition, you will no longer be able to restore.

for the 2nd one - System Restore is a very wasteful operation and doing a reformat and reinstall (provided you have a bootable windows XP install CD) cleans out your system and provides better performance and sometimes a Windows system restore can cause more probs than it creates.
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I want Magnufacturer Restoration. I cant find anywhere on the comp .
 
Warriorhazzard said:
I want Magnufacturer Restoration. I cant find anywhere on the comp .
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Looks like might've you deleted the partition somehow. Did the Acer come with a restore disk? They are usually bootable disks that let you do the restore but normally the files should be on a separate partition on your HDD...
 
gamerman4 said:
Looks like might've you deleted the partition somehow. Did the Acer come with a restore disk? They are usually bootable disks that let you do the restore but normally the files should be on a separate partition on your HDD...
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No it didnt. If the partion or the prog to restore it is on the other comp can I burn it onto a disk and put it on the one that doesnt have that prog??
 
possibly, I've never used an Acer and I'm only going on my experience with past comps I've worked with that had a restore disk.

You don't have a Windows XP install disk possibly?
 
i have an acer aspire. they gave me 4 backup cd. + some other cds.
1 cd is called the drivers
and other 3 are the backups.

insert the first cd(the driver cd) and boot the computer from cd rom.the wait 60 secs, and computer will ask you to insert the other backup cds. put them if you resore the system then the first partition will be formatted.(drive c: )
 
dont worry about using disks; this is a common problem where the Acer empowering function doesn't due to some software issue.

If you reboot your computer, when the Acer screen appears keep pressing Alt and F10 together several times; if you've done it sucessfully (it can take a few goes) you'll either get a "starting windows 98" message or a "starting Acer recovery environment" message. This will then allow you to restore your computer to factory settings or to a backup you created if you made one.
 
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