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    Saving recovery partitions

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by MalfunctionJunction, Jun 18, 2011.

  1. MalfunctionJunction

    MalfunctionJunction Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all, I do laptop service for a chain of 14 RTO store's in Va, they're primary laptop seems to be Acer (bout 98% w/ a Toshiba and a Dell mixed in occasionally) I am hoping this will work for the Acer's recov partitions

    Can I back up or copy/clone the just the hidden Acer partition(s) to save for back up's to restore for future use when an idiot customer decides to format his machine because he wants the latest greatest OS and figured out he messed it up. Would Acronis work??
    Thanks in Advance
    ~MG
     
    MalfunctionJunction, Jun 18, 2011
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    too456 Resident Angry Bird

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    The hidden partition differs from laptop to laptop in the fact that the drivers are different from laptop to laptop, and thus there will be no one size fits all solution.

    If you're still willing to go ahead, use a partition tool like Windows' Disk Management and change the status of the recovery partition to 'Active' and assign it a drive letter. It will then appear in Windows Explorer and you can copy the recovery files from the partition. However, you will NOT be able to change the status of the recovery partition back to its hidden, recovery-only state as far as I know, so you'll have to use a spare laptop you have lying around. If I'm not mistaken, there is no way to clone the partition and put it in another hard drive and have it work in the bios via Alt+F10. You'll have to ask Acer for the tools they use, which they're unlikely to provide.

    Why not just burn the recovery disks via eRecovery and save yourself a bunch of trouble?
     
    too456, Jun 18, 2011
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  3. MalfunctionJunction

    MalfunctionJunction Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am doing that my friend, the issue is that the RTO Company wants me to put these laptops to factory, w/ the Alt+F10 option intact
    thank you
     
    MalfunctionJunction, Jun 19, 2011
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