[url]http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/portal20.cfm?recordid=853&formid=3390&website=AcerPanAm.com&siteid=7117&words=all&keywords=&areaid=2[/url]

Above is the link on how-to-do Acer eRecovery.
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Mick Murphy


"Mike" wrote:
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> 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.
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> "Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
> news:upBoLds8JHA.4608@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> > 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]
> >
> >
> > "Mike******.com>" <rathbunger<nospam> wrote in message
> > news:eSD881o8JHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> 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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