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    Acer Aspire 5050 Recovery

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by ysoumalias, Jun 15, 2008.

  1. ysoumalias

    ysoumalias Newbie

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    Hi everyone,

    I'm new here so sorry if this has already been discussed. However I am having a lot of difficulty trying to restore my laptop to its original factory settings.
    My laptop came with windows xp media center edition, I upgraded it to windows vista home premium.
    The registry is so messed up from installing/uninstalling programs I want to start fresh.
    I do not have any recovery cd's nor for some reason will acer erecovery install on my machine. I have tried the alt + f10 feature but when the screen shows up there is not an existing option where it offers "recovery". The d2d bios option is enabled on my computer yet there still is no recovery option in the bios.
    If anyone is able to provide me some sort of advice as to how I could get around this issue to resolve it, it would be greatly appreciated.
    Thank you!
     
    ysoumalias, Jun 15, 2008
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  2. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    take a look in disk management and see if the PQService partition is still active..
     
    hoggie, Jun 15, 2008
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  3. algomac

    algomac Notebook Enthusiast

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    let me know if your in uk and i will try sending you recover disks for vista home edition for acer aspire 5050 which will re partition and replace hidden partitions cheers!!
     
    algomac, Jun 15, 2008
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  4. ysoumalias

    ysoumalias Newbie

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    i cannot find the pqservice on my system....
    any ideas on how i would be able to locate it?
     
    ysoumalias, Jun 15, 2008
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  5. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    if you cannot see the PQSERVICE partiton inside DISK MANAGMENT,, then it was most llikely deleted by the VISTA installation process
     
    bigozone, Jun 15, 2008
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  6. hoggie

    hoggie old boy

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    do you know how to get to disk management ?
     
    hoggie, Jun 15, 2008
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  7. ysoumalias

    ysoumalias Newbie

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    yes i do know how, however there is only one partition showing which is the c drive and it is currently active
     
    ysoumalias, Jun 15, 2008
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  8. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    then your PQSERVICE partition was wiped out (probably by the VISTA install)

    with out the RECOVERY CDS or that PQSERVICE partition the eRecovery software is USELESS....

    you will either need to contact acer for recovery CDs or just use an XP or VISTA CD to install the OS of your choice...
     
    bigozone, Jun 15, 2008
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  9. ysoumalias

    ysoumalias Newbie

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    okay great!
    thanks for your help!!
     
    ysoumalias, Jun 15, 2008
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  10. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    wish i could give you easier or happier options and choices

    but ACER will sell recovery disks for $30 or less
    maybe free if you raise enough heck
     
    bigozone, Jun 16, 2008
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  11. algomac

    algomac Notebook Enthusiast

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    acer doesnt supply recovery disks it seems when you install another system like xp it wipes your hidden partition called pq service
     
    algomac, Jun 20, 2008
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