Thanks!

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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.



"Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
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> 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
> [url]http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/[/url]
>
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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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