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    Factory Restore Complete Failed

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by nyafACE, Jun 23, 2010.

  1. nyafACE

    nyafACE Notebook Consultant

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    Here's the story. I did a restore DVD(3) completed successfully. I than restore it back to a new drive. It will not boot, just cursor blinking. Did repair with installation DVD but found no error. Anyone experience this before and how to mend it?
     
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    Bronsky Wait and Hope.

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    When the cursor is blinking is the hard drive running? If you leave it run long enough, do you get an error message or just blinking cursor?
     
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    Haven't left it long enough to see error message. Reinstalling eRecovery again and it's almost done. We'll see this time. Oh when the cursor is blinking, there's no HDD busy light.
     
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    Ok, blinking for 6 minutes without harddisk activity lights. I'll have to find anotherway.
     
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    Ok, just installed Windows 7 Ultimate DVD and it's working. I noticed on boot up it has the previous Windows 7 selection. After this get done installing, i will try to reboot and select the other Windows.
     
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    Ok, installing windows 7 is not like vista where you can choose your version to installed. I will have to try reimage my c: drive which will cost me a lot of DVDs (29G) see if that works.
     
    nyafACE, Jun 24, 2010
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