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    Acer recovery CD problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by olufsen, Sep 29, 2009.

  1. olufsen

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    hi all,

    I need help about recovering an Acer Aspire 1360 notebook from recovery CD set (Windows XP Home edition).

    My harddrive got recently broken and it was not possible to boot the system. So I tried to recover the system from the PQService partition using D2D recovery. It failed saying that the image on the recovery partition is broken. I tried the set of recovery CDs then but it failed again, probably the HDD was unreadable.
    I tried to format the HDD, first only drive C:, then also drive D: and finaly I got rid of the hidden recovery partition too.
    Now my HDD is formated with one only primary active FAT32 partition and drive is readable.
    However, when I try to recover the Windows XP from CD set it does not work. The follwoing things are happening:
    1. first inserted System Disk 1/1 and booted from there
    2. next I'm asked to insert the first of 2 windows CDs and recovery starts copying the image file
    3. in about the half of the way it asks for the 2nd windows CD (since it is not a regular windows version, but instead win+acer apps packed into an image file, there are 2 CDs)
    4. at the end of the process, I'm supposed to insert again the System bootable CD and restart. so I do.
    5. The recovery process should now start copying files from the CD (I don't know what files exactly), but instead it boots again to Windows 98 environment and starts over the recovery procedure asking for the Windows CD 1/2 etc. The the whole thing repeats.

    I'm afraid that Acer is somehow set up to have those 3 partitions there when recovering from 3CDs recovery set, so I tried to rebuild all three partitions back as they were, but I think I'm not getting it right.

    Please help me out of this mess.

    Thank you.
     
    olufsen, Sep 29, 2009
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