This tutorial can also help to do it on other computer brands<\/p>\n
Disclaimer : First of all you must be aware that some of the operations to come \tcan cause irreversible change on your hard disk, I recommend to you \tand I will never make it enough make a backup of your system before \tlaunching you in any hazardous operation. Any damage and\/or \tmodification done on your system will be under your whole \tresponsibility. The following procedures were done on a Acer \tAspire 5102wlmi and some also functioned on a Dell Inspiron 9400\/1705.<\/p>\n
As you \tknow, the Acer computers and those of other manufacturers are now \tdelivered with a system of restoration installed in a hidden \tpartition of your hard disk. This system launches out while pressing \tkeys ALT+F10 simultaneously. And sometimes for various reasons this \tsystem ceases functioning.<\/p>\n
The first cause often comes owing to the fact that function D2D \tRecovery is disable in the bios (menu principal).<\/p>\n
The \tsolution<\/u><\/strong> : enable the function and try to press keys ALT+F10 \tduring the starting of the computer.<\/p>\n The second cause : in this case hidden partition PQSERVICE was erased \tor damaged, or you replaced the disc and in this case it is not \tpresent.<\/p>\n The \tsolution<\/u><\/strong> : If you did not previously make a backup of your \tsystem by making an image disc. It will not be possible to use the \tD2D recovery. Your only hope will be to have in your possession Acer \tRecovery CD\/DVD.<\/p>\n And the third causes : the Acer Master Boot Record (MBR)was damaged or \treplaced by non-Acer MBR. As long as partition PQSERVICE is present \tor that you can put the hand on the necessary Acer files you can \treinstall the MBR of Acer.<\/p>\n The \tsolution<\/u><\/strong> :<\/p>\n First \tmethod<\/u> : on a functional Windows system:<\/p>\n 1 \tdisable the D2D recovery option of the bios.<\/p>\n 2 \topen a Windows session with an account administrator.<\/p>\n 3 \tDownload, unzip and launch partedit32(registration required for \tdownload).<\/p>\n 4 \tIdentify the Pqservice partition by its size (at the bottom of the \tpartedit window there is a partition information box) it is a small \tsized partition approximately 2 to 6 Go.Once made change the type of \tyour partition into 0C and save. Restart and open a session with an \tadministrator account, you should be able to navigate to the \tPQservice partition. Seek these two files mbrwrdos.exe and rtmbr.bin \tonce localised open a command prompt and launch this command \tmbrwrdos.exe install rtmbr.bin, this will install the Acer MBR. \tClose the command prompt window restart again Windows go into the \tbios and reactivate the D2D recovery. Now ALT+F10 should launch Acer \trecovery at the starting of the computer.<\/p>\n Second \tmethod <\/u>: On a nonfunctional Windows system.<\/p>\n For \tthat you must use a Linux distribution (for me Mandriva provided all \tthe tools necessary).<\/p>\n 1 \tBoot on the Mandriva install CD\/DVD the boot menu will give you the \tpossibility to repair or to restore the Windows boot loader.<\/p>\n 2 \tIf that is not enough launch an installation of linux(this will be \tan occasion to test this terrible OS) and choose LILO as \tboot loader(a boot menu that allow you to choose between several \toperating systems) once finished the installation. Restart your \tcomputer in the boot loader menu system you will have at least 2 \tWindows options the first generally point to PQservice choose \tit and you will boot directly into acer D2D recovery.<\/p>\n The \tlast solution is the simplest one, just note that during the Linux \tinstallation you will have to resize your Windows partition to \tcreate a place for a new Linux partition it is the most perilous \tpart because irreversible, therefore take your precautions at this \ttime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This tutorial can also help to do it on other computer brands Disclaimer : First of all you must be aware that some of the operations to come can cause irreversible change on your hard disk, I recommend to you and I will never make it enough make a backup of your system before launching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[2944,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfeatured.com\/automotive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}