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    Acer 5920G won't restore

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by hiddensanctum, Oct 12, 2008.

  1. hiddensanctum

    hiddensanctum Notebook Evangelist

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    Okay so one of my hdds died on me so I decided to use the one that I was using as an external hdd.
    I reformated that HDD, took out the broken HDD and replaced it with the new one.
    I popped in the Recovery disc and everything started and was going smoothly until it hit 18% and it gives me this "Restore Failed - reason 0xd000001e"

    Anyone can help me here?
     
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    Try to press Alt+F10 when you see ACER's logo on startup(during POST) to start the recovery proccess. Also, check this thread.
     
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    Very Ironic.
    But I've pretty much tried everything.
    Making two partitions
    installing with one partition
    installing it with no partitions at all
    Tried ALT+F10
    Tried a different HDD
    Installing XP then trying to get back to Vista
    Installing Ubuntu then trying to restore it
    Tried to run the disk on another computer
    All signs lead to the fact that my DVDs are dead...but this is ridiculous...I burned two copies of the factory default disk and they were both working fine a month ago....

    Is there anyway I can get another copy of the disks without paying Acer 20$+?
     
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    Why don't you write an e-mail to ACER and ask them what this error message mean..? I don't think your DVDs are dead either but I can't think of anything to suggest that you haven't tried yet...

    Edit: Tried to use external cd-rom? Maybe it worth a shot...

    I doubt it...
     
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    Great...no help at all
     
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    Yeah..typical..
     
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    I am gonna try to unreformat one of my HDD that has the Acer 5920G OS on it with Pandora Recovery. I haven't written anything on the HDD, you think this would work? Or is it a waste of time (says its gonna take 14 hours).

    If it works, hopefully I can make another Recovery Disk
     
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    It might work...Never done this before but since you're pretty much out of options, so if I were you I'd try this..
     
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    Talk about bad luck....two recovery disks fail at the same time
     
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    What..the pandora doesn't work either? Well maybe the cd-rom drive is failing.
     
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    No its working...slow though. Just saying I totally did not see this coming. Considering I've made two recovery disks and tested both to make sure they worked before.

    CD-rom drive failing is unlikely. I can install XP fine.
     
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