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Acer disk image

Newuser007

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Posted July 8, 2011 at 7:31PM

do you know how to access a image disk of a Acer aspire 5612 as my hard drive has failed and I do not have the image software, as it was on the hidden partition of the old drive I have email to Acer but received no reply as yet thanks

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted July 8, 2011 at 7:56PM

Just place the Recovery Disk in the drive and boot from it.

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Newuser007

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Posted July 8, 2011 at 9:00PM

thanks fruit bat but the disks are not bootable just the image files

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mgmcc

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Posted July 8, 2011 at 10:10PM

What was the software you used to create the "image" disk?

If it was something like Acronis True Image, you can install the program in another computer and then create "Bootable Recovery Media" to boot the PC and run the program. However, you might need to copy the file(s) from the image disk to an external USB 2.0 drive because the CD/DVD drive will be in use running the bootable program disk.

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Newuser007

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Posted July 9, 2011 at 8:01PM

Hi the software used was Acer Version 1.x of e Recovery that comes with the laptop as standard

thanks

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mgmcc

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Posted July 9, 2011 at 8:25PM

Are you sure that the Acer Recovery disk (or the first disk) isn't bootable? My Acer PCs have an F12 option to select the device from which to boot.

If the recovery disk isn't bootable, there is little point in having it because, if the hard drive works, its own recovery partition can be used. If the hard drive fails, the recovery disk needs to be bootable.

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Strawballs

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Posted July 9, 2011 at 9:51PM

The Acer laptop I had would boot from the disc's I made when I first got the machine.

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Strawballs

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Posted July 9, 2011 at 9:56PM

Also I thought that my drive had failed once because it just kept going back to the safe mode screen no matter what I did so I downloaded and burned to disc the Hitachi drive fitness utility and booted from that and it turned out to be the boot sector was corrupt which it fixed and was OK after that.

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Strawballs

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Posted July 9, 2011 at 9:57PM

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