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    eRecovery directory path error

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by lost_scotsman, Sep 5, 2009.

  1. lost_scotsman

    lost_scotsman Newbie

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    Hello,
    I have an Acer Aspire 5100 series laptop running Windows XP home. Was wanting to use eRecovery Manager to make a full backup of my current system. I have two hard drive partitions, both 60GB in size. The C drive is almost full (onky 9GB free) but the D drive has 47.9GB free. On the "Make Backup Image" page it says that the estimated image size will be 43.96GB, and it shows the free space of the D drive as space available. The problem is that no matter what I put in for the Name of the backup, and no matter the number of characters in the save name, the program fails almost immediately with the following error:

    Code: 
    it41
Too long directory path!

Error
Backup is failed
Error code = 0xF0000014
    Does anybody have an explanation as to why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?
    Thanks for your help
    lost_scotsman
     
    lost_scotsman, Sep 5, 2009
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  2. kiriakost

    kiriakost Notebook Deity

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    Does the Alt-F10 works on your laptop ?
     
    kiriakost, Sep 6, 2009
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    altrace Newbie

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    Hi
    I am really stuck i have the acer aspire 5920. like the other guy i had 2 drives c and d but only little bit left on the c drive . so i deleted the d drive then allocated all the free space to the c drive, then i tried to run e-recovery but now the laptop is stuck on e-recovery and will not boot back to windows or do anything , when i ask it to do a full install and write over everything it is saying it can not do this as a file is missing , the drive i deleted had this pq file on there.. HELP this is my sons laptop who is terminally ill he is desperate to resume warcraft. i feel helpless as i was the one who deleted this stupid d drive with his recovery on there.... does anyone know how i can get off the e-recovery screen and solve all this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I am running windows vista !!!!
     
    altrace, Sep 6, 2009
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  4. lost_scotsman

    lost_scotsman Newbie

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    To kiriakost, yes ALT+F10 does work, on pressing it I get to the screen givng me the option to restore to factory settings, a user created restore (greyed out because I have not been able to make one yet), one other option (I can't quite remember it, sorry) and the option to exit.

    Does this help?
     
    lost_scotsman, Sep 6, 2009
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