Acer recovery disk

choccyface2006

Hi,

I bought a new Acer Apsire 9301 in April this year but it didn't come with a Vista recovery disk, although I vauguely remember being prompted to make a back up disk when it first booted up, I didn't as I thought I could go back and do this.

Everything is running fine - no need for a recovery disk but of course I need to have one just in case.

All my photos/files are backed up onto cds/memory sticks & other laptop, aswell as my partitioned (D) drive so thet are ok. When I try to make a backup it says it will need 22 cds/4 dvds, surly this is for everything though? I just need to be able to recover my system should the worse happen. So, how can I make a recovery disk?

Thanks




Sarah

espresso

Try reading the user manual.

sco0ter

Most Acer laptops come with D2D recovery. There should be an option to turn it on in your BIOS. This resets it back to factory defaults. When its enabled all you do is press alt+f10 (I think) and you will get the recovery page with option to restore.

choccyface2006

espresso wrote: »

Try reading the user manual.

Yes I have it says very little, just that I can burn a backup image to cd or dvd, tried this but it says it needs 22 cds/4 dvds.

choccyface2006

sco0ter wrote: »

Most Acer laptops come with D2D recovery. There should be an option to turn it on in your BIOS. This resets it back to factory defaults. When its enabled all you do is press alt+f10 (I think) and you will get the recovery page with option to restore.

This wouldn't work if I had to format the hard drive though? I need to be able to reinstall windows.

Sarah

sco0ter

choccyface2006 wrote: »

This wouldn't work if I had to format the hard drive though? I need to be able to reinstall windows.

Sarah

The D2D recovery just restores the image on the hidden partition on the D drive back onto the c. You will lose all data on c but not D

choccyface2006

Okay, thanks scooter. What are the chances of both drives failing and having to use a new hdd altogether?

sco0ter

Have a go at this and see what happens

Create factory default image CD

When the System CD and Recovery CD are not available, you can create them by
using this feature.
1 Boot to Windows XP.
2 Press <Alt> + <F10> to open the Acer eRecovery Management utility.
3 Enter the password to proceed. The default password is six zeros.
4 In the Acer eRecovery Management window, select Recovery settings and
click Next.
5 In the Recovery settings window, select Burn image to disk and click Next.
6 In the Burn image to disk window, select 1. Factory default image or
2. Application CD and click Next.

7 Follow the instructions on screen to complete the process.