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    Acer Recovery Disc

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by i_baked_cookies, Nov 29, 2007.

  1. i_baked_cookies

    i_baked_cookies Notebook Consultant

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    I made the recovery DVD when I got my laptop...

    Will booting from this DVD allow me to reinstall XP and all the origional Acer programs?

    Right now I'm on Vista with one big 120gig partition and no recovery partition.

    Computer is Acer Travelmate 8204 wlmi
     
    i_baked_cookies, Nov 29, 2007
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Yes, that's what a "recovery DVD" is for. If you boot off of it, you can reinstall the original OS just the way it was when you made the DVD/ the way it came from the factory.

    PS. Can I have some cookies?
     
    adinu, Nov 29, 2007
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  3. Evolution

    Evolution Vox Sola

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    AFAIK it should reinstall XP(factory state) just fine. Put in disc 1 and reboot the recovery console will start. Alt+F10 can't be used anymore because you said you removed the hidden partition.
     
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    Does it matter that I've reformatted to NTFS?

    Will booting from the recovery disc reformat my 120gig partition to fat32?
     
    i_baked_cookies, Nov 29, 2007
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  5. Evolution

    Evolution Vox Sola

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    Acer erecovery will put the file system back to fat32. It doesn't matter if it is now NTFS or not. Remember it is a recovery image that you are using so it will put windows (file system and all) back to the state it was in when it left the factory.

    All you then have to do is when windows is fully recovered use the command prompt to convert back to NTFS or you could use a disk utility to do it.
     
    Evolution, Nov 29, 2007
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  6. i_baked_cookies

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    Okay, cool... I remembered back when I had XP I used a disk utility to go to NTFS and realign the blocks or whatever for the proper cluster size.

    Still deciding if I want to dump Vista at the moment... gaming was so much better on XP
     
    i_baked_cookies, Nov 29, 2007
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    tutingjhayr Newbie

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    Hey Guys..... i have an Acer Travelmate 4083WLMi. I change my hard disk to a bigger one. i formatted it to a new OS Windows XP pro. i cant use the erecovery bcoz the C: was formatted to NTFS... will my old recovery/back up DVDs still work on my new HD formatted to NTFS? How can i still used my old back ups now?please help......thanks
     
    tutingjhayr, Nov 2, 2008
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