Recovery

The Acer D2D Erecovery 101

Disclaimer: First of all backup your law before launching you in any perilous operation, some of the operations to come can cause data loss. Any modification and/or damage done on your laptop will be under your responsibility.

As you know now the Acer laptops and those of other manufacturers are now delivered with a recovery law installed in a incommunicable partition (Pqservice for Acer)on your hard disk. Commonly this law launches out while pressing simultaneously keys Alt+F10, but sometimes that does not function.

Recovery

What's the problem?

There are many inherent causes, but most common are:

A The function D2D was disabled in the bios.

Solution: Enable the function by pressing F2 during the boot to access the bios menu and change the setting, then reboot and press keys Alt+F10 during the starting of the laptop.

Note: For all the following solutions take into inventory the Max advice, I quote Max now, a contributor in my site «But I want to mention the way I sorted out the thing, because it's very rarely mentioned on the web. All the methods to fix the D2D Alt+f10 issue are knowledgeable and smart but all of them forget to say a fundamental thing:
first of all you have to rebuild with a partition soft the D:Acerdata Fat32 empty partition that almost everyone deletes cause is Commonly empty. Naturally doing it, all things turned fine and the recovery worked perfectly.»

Yes much of attempts to restore fail because of this condition.

B An other common qoute the Acer master Boot description (Mbr)is damaged, or supplanted by the Mbr of an additional one system. You can reinstall the Acer Mbr if the partition Pqservice is gift or if you can have access to the necessary files.

Solutions:

First

On a functional Fat32 Windows law the partition table values are Oc or Ob for installable Fat32 law files and 12 or 1B for incommunicable Fat32 partition, for a Ntfs law the known partition table values are O7 for installable Ntfs files law and 27 for Acer institution incommunicable Ntfs partition:

1. Go in the bios and disable the D2D recovery option.

2. Download partedit32.

3. Recognize the Pqservice partition by its size (there is an data box at the lowest of the partedit window) it is the small sized partition almost 4 to 9 Go.Once made change the type of your partition into 0C(Fat32) or 07(Ntfs) and save. Reboot and now you should be able to navigate inside the Pqservice partition.

Search for these two files:

mbrwrdos.exe

rtmbr.bin

(The name of these two files can be dissimilar sometimes)

When localized open a command prompt windows as an administrator and enter this command "mbrwrdos.exe install rtmbr.bin", to install the Acer Mbr. Close the command prompt, reboot again your laptop, reactivate the D2D recovery in the bios. Now Alt+F10 should work and run the Acer Erecovery when the laptop start.

Second

Somebody who tried to result the first recipe but did not result to find the 2 files found an additional one solution to restore the partition.

Use partedit32 to search the partition pqservice(on aspire 5920g,its the larger 9 gb partition)

Change the partition type to 07(Installable Ntfs),reboot.

After reboot,go to the windows computer supervision and mark the Pqservice partition as active then reboot again.

Voila!! You can now trek, to the road to recovery

Third

On a nonfunctional Windows system.

Download the greatest Boot Cd(Ubcd) run it select in the menu:

-Filesystem Tools

-Boot Managers

-For me Gag functioned well, but you can select any of the other boot loader, you will Recognize the Pqservice by it type(hidden).

Just install any boot loader and use it to boot into the Pqservice to start the Erecovery restoring process.

C The last problem: You supplanted your hard disc( in this case Pqservice is not gift any more) or your partition was erased or damaged.

Solution: I hope that you burned the Acer recovery Cd/Dvd when it had been asked to you at the time of the first use, cause if you did not previously make a backup of your laptop by making a disc image, it will not be inherent to use the Acer Erecovery.

Let us give the last words to Max:

«Problem Sorted Alan. And you're right that an external drive for data backup it's all important. Yes I have it and backed-up my data before starting messing up... »

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This post was written by: Franklin Manuel

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