Acer Aspire

[Mike]

Friend of mine was "given" a free laptop when he bought his Mazda. It came
with no discs or a recovery partition. He called and told me he was
fiddling with something in settings <he can't remember what>, and when he
rebooted it reboots in repair mode. Repair fails and laptop freezes. He's
running Vista 32. Is there a way to get past this during boot and access
system restore? If not, what can I do with it? Chad, if you respond to
this I already have the Vista 32 repair disk. This is all the
information I could get out of him. He really is computer illiterate.

 

[Richard Urban]

Computer illiterates shouldn't "fiddle"!

Have him tap F8 repeatedly when the computer starts its initial boot. When
he arrives at the advanced menu choice screen (white text on black
background) have him choose "Last Known Good Configuration" to boot with.

He should be able to get in - less his fiddling.

 

[Mike]

Thanks, Richard. I'll be the one to "fiddle" with it next. He's bringing
it to me Tuesday.

 

[Canuck57]

Computer illiterates shouldn't "fiddle"!

Have him tap F8 repeatedly when the computer starts its initial boot. When
he arrives at the advanced menu choice screen (white text on black
background) have him choose "Last Known Good Configuration" to boot with.

He should be able to get in - less his fiddling.

Good advice. But if the above does not work, have him call Acer and order a
recovery set of disks. They sell them.

 

[Kerry Brown]

In the BIOS turn on "Disk to disk recovery" or something like that. Once
that's enabled you can press Alt-F10 or Alt-F12 (can't remember which) on
boot to access the Acer recovery procedure.

 

[Mike]

Thanks!

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/fo....com&siteid=7117&words=all&keywords=&areaid=2

Above is the link on how-to-do Acer eRecovery.

 

[Mike]

Thanks!

 

[Mike]

Thanks to all who replied. Alt F10 did the trick. Last Known Good
Configuration was borked. I have no idea what he did (& neither does he),
so I did a recovery. I told him if he screws with it again I'll send JEWboy
to his house to give him a course in How To Be A Moron 101.

 

[TMAN]

do you got a desktop. if its a dell.it came with windows vista you can use
the dvd that say os on it

 

[Mike]

For God's sake, I have thanked everyone already! Stop keep posting your
silly ideas you bunch of cretins.

 

[Mike]

Someone is impostering me!! I am the real Mike, honest!