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Acer Aspire 5720 Help?
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This is a discussion on Acer Aspire 5720 Help? within the Technical Help forums, part of the Off Topic category; Hello my mum and dad bought be a laptop for my exam results over 1 year ago now and i ...
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18-03-10, 01:12 PM
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 | Acer Aspire 5720 Help?Hello my mum and dad bought be a laptop for my exam results over 1 year ago now and i have installed loads of things from microsoft and i dont know what i can uninstall so i want to wipe my laptop and start again but when i got my laptop we didnt get a vista disc with it, my dad said its built in and you have to put in a password or somthing but he doesnt know how to do it. It has run out of warrenty so i dont think acer will be bothered to tell me what to do. Has anyone else ever done this and how do i do it?
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18-03-10, 01:17 PM
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 | If you want to start again ..You need to install your restore disk all so know as back up disk When you got your PC you should have made backup/resote disk This is how you restore it back to factory setting , so you PC/laptop will be just like when you fisrt got it Hope that helped |
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18-03-10, 01:21 PM
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| i went into Acer eRecovery Management and there is no backup files EDIT: Aha i seen a tab at the bottom saying Restore and it says Restore system to factory defalt. Is that what i need?
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18-03-10, 02:48 PM
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| i did it before i just typed in the password to see if it worked and then i cancled when it asked me. Im not going to Backup anything thats the reason im restoring anything because my C: is full and i dont know what i can delete and i have like 10 programs there the rest are microsoft
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18-03-10, 03:10 PM
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| It won't be all of your programs that are filling your c: up though. Also with my Acer, It came with a partitioned hard drive for their acer recovery backup system, do you have a D:/ or other drive with a lot of space on it? Last edited by VeryGeek; 18-03-10 at 03:10 PM.. |
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18-03-10, 05:16 PM
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| This is my laptop! Although mine looks like its on its way out (only had about 18 months) it keeps overheating and then shutting off. I've tried giving it a clean out but it's still being an arse. This is my 2nd Acer and both my old laptop, my girlfriends and my dad's have all gone breasts up just after the warranty has run out. Acer conspiracy? |
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18-03-10, 08:24 PM
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| Well I have broke my laptop  it asks for a disc and we didn't get one. Crazy you owe me a new laptop 
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18-03-10, 08:26 PM
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| can you still load up the computer? as far as I can remember to get into the repair/reset bit you just keep hammering F10 as you turn on the laptop |
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18-03-10, 08:26 PM
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not my fault mate..I work in currys.digital and have done this plenty of times as I work with the tech guys on week days. | |
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18-03-10, 08:30 PM
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On Acer's you don't need a recovery disk as it's built into the partition. As you turn on your laptop and your bios loads up you'll see options down the bottom for entering setup/safe mode etc and one of them (I'm sure it's either F10 or F12) will land you straight into recovery mode. | |
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18-03-10, 08:32 PM
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18-03-10, 10:11 PM
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| its saying it needs iaStor.sys
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18-03-10, 10:13 PM
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| where do you live mate ..I might be able to come and fix it myself..really isnt hard... .sys is a system file |
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18-03-10, 11:25 PM
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| Wigan quite a fair distance from London
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18-03-10, 11:55 PM
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| I got vista not windows 7 but i didn't get a disc because it's so called allready installed
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18-03-10, 11:58 PM
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| Re: Acer Aspire 5720 Help?what went wrong when you were doing the factory reset? |
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