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    e-recovery?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by generollins, May 13, 2008.

  1. generollins

    generollins Newbie

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    Hi

    I have an Aspire 5102WLMi thats got loads of linux partitions on it as well as XP that it came with!!!

    I was wanting to restore back to the way it was when I bought it from Comet. I went on to the e-recovery management whlst booting up the laptop and noticed i could restore to "factory default" which i nearly clicked!! But I didn't know whether it would just wipe my C drive or it would restore my laptop to what it was like when I got it out the box. It came with quite a bit of software like PowerDVD NTI Cd maker etc which i want to keep, but I'm a little concerned about restoring.

    Also it said it would completely wipe the C drive...what about my D drive?? its on the same hard drive but just another partition. Again when i got it out of the box brand new it had a C and D drive both roughly 50GB.

    Has anyone got any advice?? I would just like to revert back to what it was like when I had bought it from Comet.
     
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  2. Chutsman

    Chutsman Notebook Evangelist

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    If it came with a C and a D part, when you do the factory restore it will wipe the entire drive and put back the C and D as it was out of the box.
     
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    generollins Newbie

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    I take it all the software that was there "out of the box" will still be there??

    sorry to sound stupid!
     
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  4. Chutsman

    Chutsman Notebook Evangelist

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    Yup. :) Go for it!
     
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    generollins Newbie

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    :) right I will.....i'm holding you responsible though!!!!! just kidding. I wouldn't be doing it but i got like 10 partitions cos I'm trying to reinstall Linux so I'm gonna revert it back to factory settings and then I can install Linux a fresh :)
     
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    FokkerCharlie Newbie

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    Hi All

    Sorry to borrow the thread- but this is a related question:

    If I (hypothetically) were to restore from the 'Factory Default' discs that I have burned from eRecovery management for my new Aspire 5920, would I need to have the recovery partition intact? It seems to me that I wouldn't, and the discs would simply re-format the whole HDD.

    My outline plan is to:
    - Get rid of hidden recovery partition
    - Get rid of 'D' partition
    - Install Ubuntu on freed space.

    Recovering Linux is easy, but getting Vista back might be more tricky. And although I expect to be only using it rarely, as I have paid for it, it would be nice to have it available for use!

    Not impressed that it didn't come with recovery CDs out of the box, I have to say. Hardware seems nice, however.

    Thanks in advance for your input.

    Charlie
     
    FokkerCharlie, May 13, 2008
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