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.

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Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
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"Mike******.com>" <rathbunger<nospam> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
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>
> Don't pick a fight with an old man.
> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.
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