This tutorial can also help you do it on other computer brands
Disclaimer: First of all you should be aware of fact that some of the operations to come can cause irreversible change on your hard drive, I recommend to you and I will never do enough to make a backup of the first to launch in any dangerous operation system. Any damage and / or modification done on your system will be under your whole responsibility. The following procedures were performed on an Acer Aspire 5102wlmi and some also functioned on a Dell Inspiron 9400/1705.
As you know, the Acer computers and those of other manufacturers are now delivered with a recovery system installed in a hidden partition on your hard drive. This system launches while pressing keys ALT + F10 simultaneously. And sometimes, for various reasons this system ceases to function.
The first cause is often due to the fact that function D2D Recovery is disable in the BIOS (main menu).
solution :. enable the function and try to press keys ALT + F10 during computer startup
The second cause: in this case hidden partition PQSERVICE has been deleted or damaged, or the disk has been replaced, and in this case is not present
solution :. If you have not previously make a backup of your system to make the disk image. You will not use the D2D recovery. Your only hope will be to have in your possession Acer Recovery CD / DVD
And the third causes :. Acer Master Boot Record (MBR) was damaged or replaced by non-Acer MBR. Until PQSERVICE partition is present or that you can put your hand on the necessary Acer files you can reinstall the Acer MBR
The solution :.
first method : on a functional Windows system :.
1 disable the D2D recovery option in the BIOS
2 open a Windows session with an administrator account.
3 download, unzip and launch partedit32 (registration is required for download).
PQSERVICE 4 Identify the partition by its size (the bottom of the window there is a partition Partedit) information box is a small sized partition approximately 2-6 Go.Once fact of change the partition type to 0C and save. Restart and open a session with an administrator account, you should be able to navigate to PQSERVICE partition. Seek these two mbrwrdos.exe and rtmbr.bin file a command prompt open once localized and launch this command to install mbrwrdos.exe rtmbr.bin, this will install the Acer MBR. Close the window of the command prompt to restart Windows again go into the bios and reactivate the D2D recovery. Now ALT + F10 should launch Acer recovery at the start of the computer
Second method : .. On a nonfunctional Windows system
For this you must use a Linux distribution ( for me Mandriva provided all the tools necessary).
1 Start the Mandriva install CD / DVD the boot menu will give you the opportunity to repair or restore the Windows boot loader.
2 If that is not enough launch Linux installation (this will be an occasion to test this terrible OS) and choose LILO as boot loader (a boot menu that lets you choose between different operating systems) once the installation is finished. Restart the computer in the boot loader menu system you will have at least 2 Windows options the first generally point PQSERVICE choose and you start directly in the Acer D2D recovery.
The last solution is the simplest, just note that during the Linux installation you will have to resize your Windows partition to create a place for a new Linux partition is the most dangerous part because irreversible, so take precautions at this time.
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