Trying to recover various programs (including office)

When you do not have recovery disks it is not uncommon for the manufacturer to have included in your preloaded programs one to make recovery disks or to recover the computer from special files included in your hard drive.

Check your manual for the details. If nada there then you may be able to purchase a set of recovery disks from Acer.

if you want to recover your laptop to factory setting, juat press Alt+F10 at acer logo displayed
you will directed to acer recovery management, from there you can recover your laptop

It very well may be a BIOS limitation. How old is the PC/Motherboard, and what model? Also, Windows has a 137GB limitation without at least SP1, if I remember correctly.

To start the system recovery:

1. Restart the netbook.
2. When the Acer logo appears on the screen, press the Alt and F10 keys repeatedly.
3. If you are prompted with a Microsoft Windows boot screen, press the Enter key.
4. After the system recovery program has loaded, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

If the ability to reinstall from the previous method is not available or fails, recovery of the Operating System will need to be from Recovery Media. In order to recover the system using Acer Recovery Media, an external optical disc drive is required.

1. Restart the netbook.
2. When the Acer logo appears on the screen, press the F2 key repeatedly.
3. Press the Left Arrow key until you've selected Boot.
4. Ensure that the external optical drive is plugged into a USB port.
5. Refer to on screen instructions to set the first device to USB CDROM.
6. Press the CD-ROM drive eject button and insert the disc labeled System CD.
7. Close the CD-ROM tray.
8. Press the F10 key and then the Enter key to save the changes and restart the netbook.
9. The computer will boot from the Acer Recovery Media
10. When prompted for the Recovery CD, remove the System CD and insert the Recovery CD. Note: If there are multiple Recovery CDs, please insert the first Recovery CD.
    
11. After the system recovery program has loaded, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

Note: If you do not have a set of Acer Recovery Media you may purchase recovery media online. If your computer is unable to run the Acer Recovery process, or errors occur during recovery please contact Acer Support.

In order to recover the Operating System using Acer Recovery Media please perform the following:

1. Press the F2 key to enter BIOS Setup during Power-On Self-Test (POST while the Acer logo is being displayed).
2. Using the keyboard arrow keys, arrow over to Boot.
3. Refer to on screen instructions to set the first device to CDROM.
4. Press the CD-ROM drive eject button and insert the System CD.
5. Close the CD-ROM tray.
6. Press the F10 key, and then the Enter key to save the changes and reboot the system.
7. The computer will boot from the Acer Recovery Media, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

Note: If you do not have a set of Acer Recovery Media they may be purchased at our online Acer order form..

i/run operatin disk take prompt comman and type chkdsk/rr 2-3 times it can be repair your system 2/ repair by operating disk if not work by two methode reinstal operating system.

Click: Start
Click: All Programs
Click: Accessories
Click: System Tools
Click: System Restore

Pick a "restore-point" that was taken _before_ the update was applied,
and restore your system to that previous date/time.

OR ....

Look under "All Programs" for a utility that will help you burn CD/DVD(s) to create a "Recovery Disk" set. Burn more CD/DVD(s) with all your "data" files (or copy all your data-files to an external hard-drive). Then, boot from the "Recovery Disk", to begin the process of restoring the "factory" settings.

Hi,

If you have recovery disc or back up disc put it in and restart the PC and start tapping the F12 key until at the Acer splash screen, you should get now see your boot order, now use your up and down cursor key to highlight the CD/DVD drive and then press enter, this will now start the recovery disc that you put in, just follow the on-screen instructions.

If you don't have a disc, restart the PC and at the Acer splash screen start tapping the ALT+F10 or just F10 and if you have a recovery partition on your hardrive then the recovery program will start up, just follow the on-screen instructions.

Thanks

You can use a hard drive imaging program such as Norton Ghost to create a recovery DVD(s). Norton Ghost is available as part of System Works or as a stand alone program. Power Quest's Drive Image is also an alternative, however it is too old to be compatible with Vista - you could do a Drive Image outside of Windows - booting off the Floppy.

mine just did this, sad story, your hard drive went out.