Acer Aspire Hidden Partition Restoration

hello 8 i have the sume problems with my acer aspire 8920 so have you got yous back to factory sitting yet

 

hello all 8 i have the sume problems with my acer aspire 8920 so can sume one help me get it back to factory sitting ?? plz plz

 

Acer Aspire 4315 / Windows Vista Home Basic

Attempting Factory Restore via Hidden PQservice Partition

Hard drive (C) prev formatted and Vista Reinstalled (somehow) but now corrupt due to Viruses / Addware / Spyware

PQservice Partition still present and in tact.

Have exhausted every suggestion offered on every forum / google search I have been able to find to no avail.

Namley:

(1) Disable D2D in bios / Unhide recovery partition / copy mbrwrwin.exe + rtmbr.bin to Route DIR / mbrwrwin install rtmbr.bin / re enable D2D in bios / reboot / Alt F10

Result = File:\windows\system32\winload.exe

Status: 0xc000000e

Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because
the application is missing and corrupt

(2) Unhide partition / Mark as active / reboot

Result = Nothing or same as above.

As an experiment I aslo made a clone of the PQservice Partition using Norton Ghost / Copied to another partition on another hard drive / Restored image / rebooted (on a separate machine) and got same result as above.

Viruses / Spyware problems have now been resolved and machine is in working state, reasons for wanting to continue now personal interest.

Please Advise / Extremely frustrated / thanks in advance.

 

Acer Aspire 4315 / Windows Vista Home Basic

Have exhausted all suggestions offered on every forum / Google search I have been able to find to no avail.

Namley:

(1) Disable D2D in bios / Unhide recovery partition / copy mbrwrwin.exe + rtmbr.bin to Route DIR / mbrwrwin install rtmbr.bin / re enable D2D in bios / reboot / Alt F10

Result = File:\windows\system32\winload.exe

Status: 0xc000000e

Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because
the application
is missing and corrupt

(2) Unhide partition / Mark as active / reboot

Result = Same as above.

Please Advise / Extremely frustrated / thanks in advance

 

Thanks for the suggestion (re restore disks) and sorry for double post.

Client has no restore disks to speak of.

 

Hi,

I've been reading this thread as a last resort to get vista back to an acer computer. How ever, now Im stuck at the part where one needs to navigate to PQSERVICE partition. My knowledge of cmd commands are quite poor + the partition has no drive letter so I have no idea how to navigate there?

 

Uhm yep this I know but unless I'm missing something important, its still just like your attachment image says but I have no way of accessing it? Only option that I have at disk management while clicking the partition is "help".

So how do I find those files needed from the partition?

 

Re: ACER ASPIRE HIDDEN PARTION RESTORATION

Nick, have you read this topic though? I'm trying this with these directions:

The bolded part is the problem.

 

I've just joined and I'm having some trouble starting a new post. I'ts another Acer related booting issue, so thought that I could add to this existing post.

I bought an Acer 5542 computer three months ago and had not created a back-up disk. I had also declined from registering with Acer.

Friday evening I registered with Acer, and Saturday morning my laptop failed to load. I had partitioned my drive to be able to dual boot Ubuntu as well as the pre-installed Windows 7.

F8 does not do anything, nor does alt-F10. Within 5 seconds of starting the word GRUB appears (as part of the GRUB loader) and then the PC restarts, and goes into a continuous loop. I can access the BIOS so that I can force it to boot from a CD/DVD.

Any idea's how I can get to the GRUB selection screen, or force one of my operating systems to load?

Acer kindly offered to sell me a recovery disk for £50/$80. Is this related to the timing of my registration??

 

use win7 disk to attempt repair
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html