Last weekend, I bought an Acer Aspire One D-150. I decided to put Windows 7 on it. I can not find a copy of Acer's eRecovery Management anywhere on the internet. I have tried making an image of the hidden partition with Macrium Reflect but it's not bootable. I still have the hidden partition on my HDD, I just can't boot to it. if I hold ALT+F10, I get a "Change Boot Options" screen.
I want to return this on the weekend because it was sold to me under false pretenses (I wanted an MSI model because it's better for me in a lot of ways, but they lied about the warranty on the MSI to get me to spend $50 more on the Acer). I need XP on it. Help? I need to install XP.
Hi, Njablos.
I also have an acer aspire one. It has the recovery intergrated of windows XP. Save all your data on another disk, because the computer will be formatted doing this. Restart your acer, press "alt"+"F10" before windows starts, and it will take you to the recovery menu. From there you choose to restore it to the original state.
Hope it helps you.
/Emanuel
Hi. I'm haveing trouble with this!!!
No matter when I press and hold ALT+F10, the damn thing goes to where you can choose safe-mode (and all that). whatever you choose from there it will begin to start up windows, then you get the Bluescreen and the whole thing restarts...
I'm know the asus has xp on the same recovery partition. You need to disable the fast boot function in bios first, then boot holding f9 to restart the xp install.
I have an older Acer Aspire One (Canadian retail model ZG5) that bluescreens on boot due to a virus. Even from Safe Mode, I was unable to recover, clean, etc. I followed the steps in this forum with no luck. But here's what did work:
F2 to get to the bios
From Main> disable Quick Boot
Save and exit
F12 for boot options on power up.
Select Network Boot (contrary to what common sense would dictate)
System is now happily recovering.
Am thinking just going with Win 7 upgrade now instead of update and service pak download hell. Yeesh.
In the "hit <f2> for settings" setup you can change a setting for the boot menu and it will be like "hit <f12> for boot menu and you have to enable it and restart your computer
Wow I called acer and they india rude woman who I could barely understand gave me such a hard time about product registration and all this mess and I borrowed an external cd burner bios detected it and never would boot off windows xp sp3 disc and finally I gave up and searched online and alt f10 I was laughing so much on how easy that was thanks guys great freaking forum
and it even gave me an option to restore and back up my data now that is what im talking about
Nov 7, 2013 at 08:46 PM