Acer Recovery Usb
Nettie Vitale
Acer products allow you to create your own recovery software on a USB flash drive using Acer Care Center software. You can use this recovery drive to reinstall Windows if you encounter issues, or to reset your system to factory defaults if you want to start over or decide to sell it. Keep in mind that personal files and applications that did not come with your computer will not be backed up to your recovery drive. Select a link below for specific instructions to help walk you through creating recovery media for your system.
If you are unable to create a recovery drive, please contact Acer Technical Support at 1-866-695-2237. If you would like to order the original factory software for your product, please contact us at 1-800-910-2237. Customers outside the US or Canada, please contact Acer Support in your region.
3. Select the one which suits you most. Here, I will take Customized Restore for example. But if you want to restore Acer system to factory default, select "Restore Factory Settings".
Acer Recovery Management is helpful when your computer stop working or is not responding, but all of the restore options (Restore Factory Settings or Customize Restore) provided by it will delete your personal data and installed programs. If you don't want to lose any data after system recovery, try one reliable backup and restore software - AOMEI OneKey Recovery.
With it, you can backup system to recovery partition and other locations, such as, external hard drive. And it allows you schedule backup system with daily, weekly or monthly scheduler. Thus, you can keep everything you store on the system partition and get it back when something bad happens. Besides, you can enable fast recovery key (F11 or A) or boot menu to access this software easily and quickly.
3. Select from where to restore system, AOMEI OneKey Recovery partition or a system image file, depending on where you have stored the system backup you have created or your personal preference. Here, take the first one for example.
The process will take a few minutes. During the process, the computer will restart several times. Finally, you will get a new recovered operating system just like the moment you create the system backup.
And usually, the third-party software is more powerful and feature-rich. For example, this software also applies to other brandy computer, such as, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, HP, Asus, etc. And it allows you to compress or encrypt the backup image if needed. Also, you can backup system at a specific interval.
This is what comes of dabbling. I have an Acer laptop and, in the modern trend, it did not come with backup software. Instead, Acer has created a recovery partition on the hard drive that can be accessed if you do something to your computer and need to recover. Normally, when the ACER splash screen appears when the computer is turned on, you can hold down ALT and F10 to access the so-called erecovery partition.
I have had this problem previously. Usually, you can pull out your Windows installation CD or DVD and escape to a command prompt from the normal setup of Windows. That kills GRUB and your ability to reach Ubuntu but Windows will start. You can then use an Ubuntu Live CD to restore GRUB.
There is an Acer utility called eRecovery Management. You can make a backup disc with this utility (and you are supposed to do it blah blah blah as soon as you get your laptop blah blah blah). Needless to say, I had not used it in 3 years. And it now no longer worked, because whatever version of Microsoft .NET or C++ Runtime was no longer installed.
The first thing I did, though, was to use the free Disk Image utility to create a copy of the Acer eRecovery partition. This means that I can mount it as a virtual drive and back it up onto portable media just in case. It took about 20 minutes to make the image file. Once copied off safely, I moved on to the next step.
Thanks for the instructions!!
If not using Linux, and all you are contending with is Alt F10 not working after an upgrade to Windows 10 and returning to Windows 8, presuming one can start at the Backup the Acer Partition, and follow on to Boot-US.
Is this correct?
Thank you for your thoughts. There might be more that one way to get to the Acer Recovery partition, through GUI as you did, or through the command prompt using diskpart and reagentc. The latter (reagentc) comes in handy for enabling image recovery solutions.
Must say Acer does not offer any creative choices for reinstating the Acer partition, other than purchasing their CD/DVD.
I want to install the Windows XP Tablet PC edition on it. I have a license and CD key for it. However, the Acer machine's recovery DVDs seem to contain three parts of a Norton Ghost image, and nothing else. The recovery DVD won't even start on a Non-Acer system.
If you have a copy of Ghost handy, Ghost Explorer (I think the filename is ghostexp.exe) should be somewhere on the disc. If not you might be able to obtain it by downloading a trial of Ghost itself via Symantec's site.
Do you still able to login to your Windows? e-Recovery also available in the Windows if not mistaken, I would think this will be your best chance to have your laptop recovered. Other than that, I would suggest you to send your laptop to Acer Service Centre to have a look, though it will cost a little bit.
Solution? Start hitting the key(s) when the Acer (or whatever make) logo appears and keep hitting until what you want to load comes up. Has about 90% success rate. But alas, the faster our computers get, the harder it will be to time these commands.
Hey I keep trying the alt f10 command and it goes like this I turn my laptop on the acer logo appears I hold alt an bash the f10 key a couple times n the screen just goes black with little white cursor in top left as if i to type?? Any ideas on other ways?
I was wondering if anyone can help me. My mom had to replace her hard drive on her acer (my sister fried it and every computer repair shop she took it to said the same thing). She bought a new hard drive and replaced but It is a few years old and acer says that they do not have a recovery disc for it. They claim it is too old for them to still have the recovery discs. Is there any other place to get them?
Yes, restoring to factory settings would mean that every personal settings/files will be gone, it is pretty similar to a reformatting, except the source are from the eRecovery partition. So restore to factory settings should be just fine, and do not erase the hidden eRecovery partition, it will not help for the next user in restoring the Windows.
hello my name is justin and i really need you help, upon start up i get the msg that my OS cannot be found and that it is exiting broad com i just dont understand what is going on i have tried alt+F10 and nothing happens i also do ot have an OS disc nor can i afford 1 i dont care how it gets fixed or if i can recover all my files i would just like it to work as i have no other pc to use i am currently on a friends atm can u plz help me my email is Memnoc...@hotmail.com of if we can voice chat that would be alot better because i am not good with computers to be honest and i dont want to mess it up anymore than it already is..
I am not too sure how I can fix the recovery, however, if you required to save all the important files out before you do a full wipe of the system, you can always create a uBuntu LiveCD to help. Refer to the link below for it. Using this you can save all your files from your hard disk to external drive.
Im not sure if anyone reading this site.
I encounter BootMgr Is Missing error after restoration using Alt+F10.
Now my OS is in D: and HP_Recovery is in C: How can this happen?
How can i swap back?
I would like to think that the things that you have deleted are actually from Windows itself, not on the booting level, so I would assume that the eRecovery system via Alt+F10 will still be usable. If you did not delete the partition that stores the recovery image, chances are you can restore your computer to factory settings.
It is due to the compression that you applied to all files on the HDD. For me, it is a new problem, but a quick search shows that there are solution for this, though a Windows System Repair disc has to be created for it.
How about try to go through the recovery again to see if it still stuck at the same moment? If it does, probably you will have to contact Acer for assistance, or probably a repair from them to have a proper recovery image.
You are giving fantastic information. I have a Acer Extensa 4620Z with the partitioned hard drive and Windows Vista. I had a friend attempt to fix the computer loading his own version of windows vista on the computer. I now noticed that both hard disks are 3/4 full. I thought I would start over and try to get into recovery mode, but the alt+f10 is not getting me to the recovery mode. I am guessing he cleared my recovery partition, but it looks like there is alot of data on the drives. I would like to wipe and reinstall. How do I wipe it all? You told a previous responder that you can grab the drivers from the Acer website. Where can I get another copy of windows Vista to reinstall? Can you give me the proper address to the Acer website?
For the drivers, most probably you can grab them from their official page (acer.com). However, there is no way for you to get another copy of Windows Vista from them; they only provide the recovery disk. To install fresh Windows Vista, I am afraid that you have to buy it or download the ISO image and burn it to a DVD.
I have a Acer AspireOne D260 Laptop, which is not booting up.Only the power button and the battery is showing light .I also tried BIOS with USB stick, but that doesnt work either.Please help how to solve it
Have you tried to install the Windows without loading the driver? I am not too sure but most of the time driver is not needed unless your hard disk configuration is a special one. But if the Windows installation does not able to read your hard disk then indeed the driver is needed.
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