Acer eRecovery

[Anarchy012]

on my Acer notebook there are 3 partitions: the hidden backup, ACER C: and data D:.

The notebook came with the software installed (eRecovery) to access the recovery partition and restore to factory default settings. i was just wondering if that means it formats the hard drive again into those three partitions or if it will leave my data D: in tact? all i want it to do is overwrite the C partition.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

It should go through the standard Windows install, meaning that you specify which partition to format.

 

[Anarchy012]

Thanx. will give it a try then

 

[Drake2007]

Backup your data first instead of taking that chance.

 

[Dolby]

My Acer netbook has 2 partitions ... what is the 3rd for?

 

[Anarchy012]

The third is hidden, check in disk manager. They didn't ship it out with the windows disks and drivers etc. seems they store it on that smaller 13Gb partition, which is bootable.

 

[LazyLion]

on my Acer notebook there are 3 partitions: the hidden backup, ACER C: and data D:.

The notebook came with the software installed (eRecovery) to access the recovery partition and restore to factory default settings. i was just wondering if that means it formats the hard drive again into those three partitions or if it will leave my data D: in tact? all i want it to do is overwrite the C partition.

When I did the re-install on my Dad's laptop, it reformatted the entire drive. The second partition was deleted as well. Can't remember if it gave me a choice or not. I suggest you had better burn several copies of the recovery CDs.

One other thing... and I'm not sure if it still does this, but those recovery CDs usually reformat the partition to FAT32. You might want to convert it to NTFS for performance sake and better file handling.

Instructions here...

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

 

[Anarchy012]

The default OS is vista home premium, and afaik vista wont format anything over 32Gb in fat32, correct?

 

[LazyLion]

The default OS is vista home premium, and afaik vista wont format anything over 32Gb in fat32, correct?

The formatting part is not done by Vista. The e-recovery software has it's own installation system and simply dumps an image of the OS onto the newly formatted drive. I think it uses a customised version of Linux to do that funnily enough. But this was back in the XP days. I dunno if they have updated it now for Vista.... I highly doubt it though. It is one of the reasons why I hate Acer laptops.

Last time I did it ... about a year ago... it formatted a 120 GB drive with FAT32 But don't take my word for it. Find any Acer laptop and go look at the file system. Ten to one it is FAT32.

 

[Anarchy012]

aaaaaahhhhhhh, i see! thanx alot. My current file system is NTFS, so heres hoping they have made improvements.

 

[LazyLion]

aaaaaahhhhhhh, i see! thanx alot. My current file system is NTFS, so heres hoping they have made improvements.

I'd be interested to know your findings, cos it would really change my opinion of the brand. Hopefully they have gone ahead and paid the license fee to be able to use NTFS in the e-recovery software.

 

[web]

My Acer e-recovery reinstalled/reformatted in NTFS.

 

[LazyLion]

My Acer e-recovery reinstalled/reformatted in NTFS.

which laptop and OS do you have?

 

[bekdik]

erecovery will reinstall c. d will remain unchanged.

 

[web]

which laptop and OS do you have?

5620z winxpee

 

[Morpheos]

I have an Acer extensa 5220 running XP Pro and im looking for recovery disks. Can any1 help? i have a list of other a few other models that run the same eFramework

 

[Smooth Criminal]

Call Acer and ask them for the ISO.

 

[Morpheos]

SORRY, whats ISO? I have tried using ALT F10 but the eData won't accept the password

 

[Morpheos]

They say I must purchase the cd's for R500 I think they r mad