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| 1361237 | 2013-11-30 10:25:00 | Hiya all, can you guys point me in the right direction . . . Bro has a Acer Netbook he wants to sell . Current: He installed Ubuntu so there is a dualboot with Win7 Starter . Upon bootup the Ubuntu GRUB startup list appears . Pressing ALT F10 to start the factory restore process doesn't work . With that Ubuntu GRUB if he chooses the backup restore (which is stored on the internal HD's partition) on the list it work and Win7 Starter goes thru the process of installing drivers again etc . But this dang GRUB screen is still there . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1361238 | 2013-11-30 10:50:00 | If you can get into W7, Most Acers have a inbuilt Recovery Manager ( I think thats what its called) There you can make a set of recovery DVD's or USB drive, make them, wipe the drive completely clean / blow the partitions away and re-install the factory Images. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1361239 | 2013-11-30 19:50:00 | I am gonna backup that hidden partition first but you do know if the Acer software also restores the hidden installation partition too? | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1361240 | 2013-11-30 20:41:00 | If its the recovery from an outside source Eg DVD or USB drive it should restore everything, including the recovery apartition. Have a look at This Video (acer.custhelp.com) I did a backup last week on a Acer W8 and it required at least 16GB of backup drive space - same as the picture on windows-7-starter-32-bit-acer-netbook-hard-drive-wipe-specific-issues (www.sevenforums.com) On the odd occasion the backups fail and you cant restore. Thats when you reinstall a straight copy of W7 using he COA thats on the underside of the laptop/netbook. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1361241 | 2013-12-01 06:43:00 | Hmm ... I used QParted to blow the partitions out. Booted up the USB HD and the Acer software have all the (3) choices greyed out. Before I blew up the partitions it says the 3rd option can be performed b/c I still had files on it. The 3rd option is to restore everything including the hidden partition. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1361242 | 2013-12-01 08:12:00 | When you made a backup, it SHOULD boot directly from the USB drive. This is of course as long as everything has gone as it should. Example:acer.custhelp.com I did mention earlier on ( Post #4) On the odd occasion the backups fail and you cant restore. Thats when you reinstall a straight copy of W7 using he COA thats on the underside of the laptop/netbook. If you have to go down that route, have a read of the following Post #4 OR 5 windows-7-starter-iso-clean-install.html (www.sevenforums.com) Assuming the netbook doesn't have a Optical Drive or no external drive is available you will have to make a bootable USB drive to install it from the altered ISO. (had to do this many times) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1361243 | 2013-12-01 10:22:00 | Fixed now. Dunno. I was playing with QParted creating diff sized partitions b/c the option were greyed out. Yeah .. with the Acer eRecovery Management it creates the backup on the USB HD. It boots into the Acer software the options was just greyed out. I then reinstalled Ubuntu on the empty HD. Rebooted the Acer software and it works ... I was able to reset all partitions. On this machine, you can press F12 to choose the boot device and you can choose the USB stick. USB stick doesn't boot. The same stick boots my PC. But a USB HDD boots .... (Linux USB/Flash boot utility). |
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