Restoring your Acer computer to factory condition is easy. Most Aspires will have a second partition that can be used to restore if you do not have CDs. It is recommended that you make those CDs when you first buy the laptop. If you don’t, you run the risk of not being able to install Windows again if that second partition fails.
Keep in mind that running the recovery will restore the computer to the way it was when you first brought it home. Anything you added will be lost, so make sure you have program disks, passwords, favorite websites, photos, documents and anything else you need backed up before proceeding with the recovery of your Acer Aspire.
Hard Disk Recovery should be enabled by default. If it is not, you may need to go into your system’s BIOS by hitting F2 at boot and enable it under the Advanced tab.
Once Hard Disk Recovery is enabled, restart the system and hit ALT+F10. This will begin the Aspire system recovery process. You will be prompted to type six zeros as a security step. Type 000000 to proceed.
You will then see a screen to select your Operating System. Do this and hit enter and the recovery process will begin.
The process for restoring from the second partition is similar with all major brand names. The most improtant thing to remember is to always have backups of your data and take a few minutes to burn recovery DVDs using Acer’s built in utility. If you have more questions regarding this process, be sure to join our free computer forums today!
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want to factory restore computer
Okay. Let us know if you need help.
My computer has crashed and left with the blue screen of death.
I cannot find my windows XP disk and am affraid to do the system recovery.
I have a burnt copy of windows XP but will my drivers all work like my sound card and whatnot?
What do you recomend.
Also when i try to boot it from the disk and recover the system it asks for an administrator password. I have never had a password and have no clue as to what it might be but this is hindering my recovery process.
Thanks,
Neil
Details of the blue screen could help…Rather than reinstalling, try getting into Safe Mode. Boot the PC and immediately begin tapping the F8 key. Once there, you might be able to undu any recent changes or fix any problems that are causing this problem with your computer.
I purchased a used Acer Aspire 5000 about two years ago. One day I had the brilliant idea of installing Vista on it, which worked fine, except for the fact I had to reformat the drive to an NTFS partition. Unfortunately the Aspire auto restore only recognizes FAT32. Somewhere during the install of Vista, probably due to my not paying attention or own stupidity, I wiped out the virtual D Drive where the restore information was kept and of course I didn’t think to make a restore disk either. Now I am looking to sell the machine because of getting a new MAC Book and have no way of setting the Acer back to factory defaults. I called Acer and was told it would cost me $39 just to talk to someone because I did not have a warranty and I can find no place on their web site to purchase the factory restore disks. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to where I can get a restore disk or should I just load Vista on the thing again and given them the Vista CD along with the machine as part of the package?
I don’t see that you have any recourse. You can try and get recovery CDs from Acer, but as you can see it’s going to cost you.
Your third alternative is to put an alternative OS on there–like Ubuntu Linux.
John, the recovery partition only includes the Windows installation CD’s, device drivers and some utilities that I actually had to spend hour uninstalling.
You could re-install Windows XP using any XP installation CD. If you use the registration code at the bottom of the notebook, there should not be any license issues.
Then it should not be too much of a trouble to download all the device drivers from the internet. (The wireless might not work without a driver, but windows XP usually gets the wired ethernet work.)
thanks very much.. i finally solved my problem
my 8′ laptop(had it for a yr) only has the sd momery slots and the usb slot on it. how do i do a recovery? I as well have a virsurs somewhere in my system. which leads me to the reason why i want to reboot it back to where it was in the beggening. thanks, hope you can help,
Stephanie
i just got a acer aspire 7450 notebook w/ window 7 and the day after having it the mouse starts to work funky ok so instead of when you left click and it justs clicks annd when you right click u get a menu so now wen i left click i get menu and when i rite click i get the same menu…i tryed changing the settings for it and nothing ..i called the ppl no help then they saikd maybe its a hard drive problem..to send it in but i dont want to wait the lo0ng to get back my computer and i had to wait that long to get it…my computer has shut off with out proper shutdown 3 times and maybe its somthing to do with the hard drive….if it is how can i get it fixed with out paying any money or do u think it is something else? please please help i am desprite no please !?
hiiii,i just bought acer aspire 4520 with windows vista and i didnt backup my windows,the computer was so heavy so i installed windows 7 but now i wanna reinstall windows vista from OEM how can i do that?
If you have the disk, you should be able to boot from it and run it. During install, you will see the Windows 7 partition and will have the ability to wipe the drive. backup first, as you will lose everything. Also, it you still have the original recovery partition on there, you might just be able to launch that. Look for opportunities to press a function key when first booting (like F10) to access that partition.
You are awesome for posting this recovery info. i thought all was lost. Bought it, set it up and played with it less than an hour before I had a Vundo Virus. This saved my investment.