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  • THE 1:13 SCREEEN WONT APPEAR ON MY WINDOWS 7 PLEASE HELP ME :L

  • HELP PLEASE THE ACER SCREEN WONT APPEAR ON MINE WHEN I TRY TO DO THIS PLEASE HELP.. PLS :)

  • i never got a recovery disc with my aspire one d257

  • i wonder what idiota click bad video :D

    guy show simple method how do somethink hard for "users"

    gratz for you :)

    btw..i newer try this way..i got my own :)

  • my acer aspire one D255 wont start. I got a message saying check cable connection! Exiting Intel PXE ROM. No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key. Something is wrong with the hard drive I could hear some clicking sounds but not anymore. Its a new netbook I went to install microsoft office then it froze and turned off to that black screen showing the above message. Please help me solve this problem.

  • what do u put on the flash drive?

  • are the recovery cd's specific to each acer? mine took a dump and it never came with a cd and acer doesnt support them anymore i guess bc its old???

  • what do i do when its frozen on the "RESUMING SCREEN" ? i have a Acer aspires one zg5 PLEASE HELP !

  • People who have problems are not frickin' doin it right!

  • I press f12 and select the drive and it says remove disks or other media Press any key to restart..but i press a key and it dosnt do anything.

  • Dude. I frigging love you. My acer has been down for months and it said something about a recovery cd that I could not find. Alt + f10 worked for me. Thank you so much.

  • I love the aspire one

  • what if i have a mac? do i use the disk utility or do the same

  • Okay....so let me get this straight...I spent literally 16 hours straight trying to get this dumb malware out, tried Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, etc., in safe mode and tried to format drives and tons of other stuff. I torrented 3 Windows XP disks, but the laptop didn't recognize any of it. And then I found out that all you had to do was press Alt and F10. FML.

  • plz if someone knows can explain why alt+f10 doesnt works on my aspireone? tnx

  • Thanks for your support. It's been a great help because I tried to do the recovery with an external CD drive connected to the netbook itself first and I wondered about not getting any menu options after booting.

  • Thank you, very good tutorial. It helped a lot, I just recovered my Linprus Lite.

  • hi there, can you pls assist me in reinstalling back my acer system which has the erecovery program installed there. it got erased when my drive c was reformatted and i dont have a recovery disc. my netbook is acer aspire one d255.tnx

  • Thanks AcerGuy, this was very helpful.

  • i tried the alt f10 thing and it didnt work why?

  • @zSEVEREz me too why alt+f10 doesnt works? someone can help?

  • Thank you for this video but when I click on ''Create Recovery USB Drive'' and waiting for the loading it took too long time help me please!! whatshould I do is there any solution ? and the caps lock flashing what's the ptoblem ???!!!!!!

  • @pro92LA has anyone gotten an answer, i'm having the exact same problem!!!

  • THANKS! *thumbs-up*

  • HI,

    I've managed to do an eRecovery for my netbook. It is currently installing " Acer Configuration Manager For Android" when it loads in windows. May i know how long does it take to finish installing? So far it have taken almost 2 hours n the current progress is only 12/23.

    Thank You.

  • i want to know without the cd ?

  • Hi sir,

    Is it possible for u to send me the file in your thumbdrive to me? My netbook Aspire One is down and i do not have the Recovery Disk. Will be really grateful.

  • @delta1912 same here please...

  • you are the king

  • Hi! I have got an Acer Aspire One, but It doesn't boot. It stops working at the 6:39 black screen with the white letters. If I try pressing f2 or f12, it stills freezes. I don't have Windows installed so I can't fix it by pressing Alt+f10. I've also tried recovering the BIOS, but It doesn't work either. I think It doesn't recognize USBs so, do you think this recovery of yours could solve my problem?? thanks for your help

  • can you use any other laptop to make the flash drive or does it have to be an Acer?

  • @DaEvolution914 it can be any computer to make the bootable usb;)

  • @SocialStarter Thank you! so much

  • Hi, When you recover your acer are all your files still on the computer? I must know!

  • @MsUsernameGurl No. When you recover your PC, you restore it to the way it was when you bought it. No personal files, and no programs either.

  • Can some one upload an image from the recovery DVD for acer aspireone d250???

    Mine did not come with recovery disk and I need it!!!! Acer charges me 200 US dolars for and online order of the recovery disk in my country (argentina). tHANKS!!!!

  • @TodosJuegan

    thepiratebay[DOT]org[SLASH]tor­rent[SLASH]4353829

    here u go :D you will need uTorrent to download!

  • Can't i just use the DVD and a external usb CD drive to recover it?

  • Plz help me I have a acer 3829TG and it does not of a CD/DVD rom. I try alt f10 at start up at the acer logo but nothing happens

  • I need help can you help me find a acer aspire one a0532h factory default disc i want it formatted like how i first got it with all the acer defaults not Microsoft defaults i installed windows 7 pro i want back my windows 7 starter from acer not the one from Microsoft do you think you can help me.

  • @TheAcerGuy mine got a bad virus and is vry slow... i mean vry vry vry slow! Is there by chance a reset button?!?!?

  • my friend gave me her Acer aspire one and she didnt know where the recover disk was. I need it to fix the computer. Do you know how i can go about geeting one so I can fix it. PS Love the video. Thankx

  • hey would this work for an acer aspire 5532??

    PLEASE HELP! i really need to fix this for my mom!

  • u dont need to do all that just press f12 at ur computer logo screen as it posts to go the the boot device list and select the cd drive or the usb device

  • do you know to fix a unmountable boot error?

  • Damn! this video was so close to the one I was looking for, but no cigar. I am trying to boot from a recovery cd with an Aspire desktop. All I keep getting on the screen is: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" And I already changed the BIOS to boot from the cd so WTF??

  • Thank you! This helped alot

  • is it possible to recover using command prompt, F# or something like that?... i dont have recovery discs =/

  • can you recovery your computer with out CD?

  • What should i do if i dont have the cd to recover. i didnt got one.

  • Hi, does anybody know where I can get an ISO of the rebuild disk for an Aspire One Z8G? Cheers

  • Nice one,Subscribed.

  • i have the 8gb ssd ZG5, where can i get the recovery disk?

  • expire one?

  • throw that piece of crap out the window.

  • what acer laptop is that i love how it looks xD

  • Thanks it really helped :)

  • alright my erecovery isnt working i have a netbook and when i click on the erecovery it says "erecoverUI has encounterd a problem and needs to close. we are sorry for the inconvenience." and it alloys me to send an error report or dont send one, and thats it it closes after. also my system restore doesnt work either when i ckilck on it to open it, it just has a blank page WTF! do i do help me plz!

  • does the big computer have to be an acer?

  • is there a website i can go to to download the dvd on to my pin drive?

  • how much is the recovery disk?

  • there are steps that can be taken to aviod this get a good virus program and watch the sites you go on and don't just download any program

  • im using acer right now! lol BUT it dinnt work IT AWALYS WORK IN MY ACER THING I CANT EVEN THE FREKING BACKGROUND

  • I have an Acer Aspire One D-250, Windows XP and I have set it back to its factory settings before but now when I try to restore it back, it won't work even though its enabled for me to enter there.

    The last times I've tried entering, it just stays in a blank black screen and freezes. I even got the BSOD when I tried entering there.

    Is there anything that I'm able to do to fix this problem? o:

  • acer is the best!!

  • when i go to install anything to my acer aspire one it says i need a password and i have not set one, anybody know what it is?

  • @pooboy6666 For the AspireONE the default user is without admin rights, so the password is unknown ... you should use SUDO command from prompt or install applications you can find from acer-euro . com ftp website.

  • @TheAcerGuy what in god's name does that mean

  • will this mess up anything on the laptop i put the recovery disk in?

    and i have an acer aspire one d260.

  • @myb00tyg0tswagg09 It didn't mess mine up but you HAVE TO SELECT the right option in a hurry otherwise it WILL format your HDD!!

  • will this mess up anything on the laptop i put the recovery disk in?

  • I have an aspire AOD150 and it came without the recovery disk where can I download it to make it into a usb recovery?

  • Any ideas how to fix my display issue on my acer aspire one d250.All I get is a cycling of differant color screens.

  • you dont even need to go into the bios-settings. you can press simply, in the same screen you pressed F2 for bios, F12 / F8 and then you can boot from HD or disc-drive what ever you want. even from a USB drive it can go. just try and you will see it will work

  • Thats how u reset a acer pc back to factory settings?

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  • funny accent!!! speak more words!!!!!!!

  • Hi i have a question . My acer aspire one z25 the other day was working great then just out of the blues the screen got smaller and pulled to the left . So in other words my image from the gpu was about 3/4 to the left side and other black . What can i do to fix that problem ? i installed the latest bios wich is the 3310 and nothing has changed .i have seen 1 video on youtube were a guy shows the same problem but no fix .

  • @cisco760ca Sounds like a physical problem. The only solution here I can recommend is that you take it to an Acer repairing center and get them to fix it.

  • what dose it mean when you hear a clicking noise from the speakers?

  • @MAS68saxophone i got the same thing i took the battery out and turned it on with the ac cable connected turn it off and connect the battery turn it on and the sound went away that work for me.

  • @dliga1 thanks! :D

  • hiya, after looking for ages i found the recovery cd. After following the intructions i managed to create a usb, but after pressing f12 it wasn't there in the list. so i formatted the usb and tried again. Now it says you have created your usb recovery when plugged it is recognised but nothing loads up. so i started up the acer and checked under the usb and its completely empty, how can that be if the cd says you have successful created your usb.. Any help? Thanks

  • when i bought my acer notebook im not sure if i got a cd i dont remember. but if i did and cant find it would i be able to get it from a store? what can i do?

  • @123abc869 If you bought a Windows version - you didn't. To recover you just press ALT + F10 when booting up. If you lost it you can either hunt down the Linux file on the web or simply contact Acer support center.

  • Who the hell has a USB under a gig...

  • @WhatTheFeatherTV HAHAHAHA. Good point but when I made this video, that was a big(gish) number. I tried it on a 512MB key and failed. That's why I made the comment so no-one else would have to...

  • @Lotusalicious Oh haha sorry, I didn't know it was that old :3

  • I can't find the website so can you send me a link to me so I can watch or read how to do it. Because I want to play windows games on but there is one fuckin problem Linux only knows how to play videos music and photos my aspire one is the zg-5

  • Do you have to have anyother acer laptop?

  • Do you know how to change the software on my acer aspire one because Linux is fucked badly and I want windows on it not linux

  • @Rickycooke1gmail There's a walk through of this on the Acer Guy website. Look for it in the search bar or directly in the Expert Voices section.

  • THEACERGUY- maybe u can help me. i have purchased an Acer Aspire One, now i got viruses and for some reason i cant restore the system to factory defaults because it says- "Hard drive configuration is not set to the factory default. restore aborted." So pretty much my Acer erecovery management is not working can u please help me out!!!!!!!

  • Thank you ! Worked perfectly !

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  • How do you reset hard drive?

  • man do u have a video to restart the pc like im having a probelma and stuff and i would like to restart everthing men help plz!!1

  • hii,but,can i download programs to the acer aspire one?,because i dont want movie maker anyy moore! T_T

  • Hello, I have windows XP and the alt. F10 trick doesn't work...

    what do I do?

  • this is great but the only other pc in my house is an windows7

    and i dont have a recovery dvd.

    was the dvd supposed to be included with my acer netbook?

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  • Okay acer guy,My model is 533-13509. I want to know a the motherboard part #,price and where to buy one. secondly the psu(I am not talking about the power cord adapter)I am talking about the actual electrical connections to the components can you do this?

  • DUDE BLESS YOU MAN YOU ROCK YOU HELPED ME SO BAD THANKS MAN

  • i need some help i have a acer aspire 1 and im trying to recover, and it goes to the acer eRecovery management but it finds an error at 43% please help

  • Hey i got the black screen of death on my Acer Aspire one i was wondering how do i fix it?

  • thank you so much for the video sir

  • there's a problem. when i got my aspire one, it didnt come with a recovery dvd

  • does realplayer work on the linux provided with acer aspire one?

  • Hello when i try my recovery cd when i go to reformate the hardrive it says error 39!! How do i get it fixed?

  • Hi TheAcerGuy!

    I have seen your video and I had a problem when I tried following the steps to recover my dead Acer Aspire One:

    When my computer reboots with the recovery CD inserted, the screen shows the same as on 2:08, BUT when I push the 'Create Recovery USB' option, it suddenly freezes on the 2:14 screen. The white bar doesn't load and I have to switch off the computer.

    I know you are very busy, but can you help me? What is the problem?

  • would this work for a xp netbook?

  • question My acer aspire 7535/7235 series wont switch on to the desktop it just says starting windows HELP

  • hi i followed your instructions have the usb when recovering but it wont install it reboots after i click ok you said it take 20 min it wont copy please help

  • hi, im trying to recover my friends aspire one 532h but theres no inbuilt recovery software and no disk so what do i do?

  • Question: Does the other computer have to be Acer also because my table pc "jams" in loading part (2:14) and i wont do anything after that.

    Ps. i m using "not original" copy of the recovery disc that is my friends.

    If you know the answer please respond.

    Thanks!

  • Thank you. This helped a lot.

  • Hi Acer guy again,

    Me CMD Cont....

    So my recovery disc maybe busted possibly??? Can you direct meto a download possibly???

    This is my kids laptop and she was using it yesterday until the power went off and when charged it just came up with the black screen.

    I now see that this is a common fault on these notebooks.

    Any help would be greatful.

    Regards

    CMD

  • Hi Acer Guy,

    Your video is excellent and very easy to use however I am having a sereious issue. When I insert the 4gb flash card into the usb (powered off!) and then followed by the cd, Using your instructions the disc will go through to option 2 where it asks you to back up using a USB. Click 2 and proceed. It then takes me to the Acer one screen with the loading bar at the bottom. Thats it. It doesnt goto the bit where it asks you the USB port to send it to etc.. Can you help??

    Regards CMD

  • I followed your video instruction and created a recovery usb flash drive. I inserted it

    into my acer aspire one and was only able to go as far as ``select partition``, when I

    push the ok button the screen went back to the welcome screen. Can you tell me

    what I did wrong

  • @2010dragonsden From Acer support: ""Select partition" is not a normal message because with Recovery for Linpus there are no partitions to recover as it recovers all the SSD. So probably you have partitioned the SSD space. To recover it now you have to clean all partitions first"

  • @TheAcerGuy How do you do this? I have Linux4one currently installed and would like to recover Linpus Lite but am getting the same error.

  • @TheAcerGuy @TheAcerGuy How do you do this? I have Linux4one currently installed and would like to recover Linpus Lite but am getting the same error. Please Help I'm so confused!

  • I followed your instructions and created a recovery USB flash drive. I inserted the USB drive and went as far as ``select partition`` and when I pressed ok button to

    continue the computer went back to the welcome screen. Can you tell me what I did wrong

  • Dude thanks the vid helped, as it took me a while because it kept stopping at 56% or something like that, but without this vid i wouldnt have my laptop back lol

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  • Tried a few more times and did get this to work.  Thanks for the video. I would have never gotten this done from the instruction manual.

  • I got the recovery disk created without a problem, but when I tried to boot Acer Aspire One (Linux)from the flashdrive, it just comes up as usual. I don't get the page you indicated asking for language etc. My internet connection is messed up from when I tried to update Firefox and I just want to start over with the original settings. Suggestions?

  • Thank you so much for the very helpful video, would I be able to use my desktop computer and disconect the hardrives in order to create the usb recovery drive, while not messing up my computer.

    Thanks for your help

    Alex

  • How do I restore when I don't have a DVD or drive? I have nothing. My A1 is not even getting on the net.

    Thanks

  • PLEASE HELP ME!!! I have an Aspire One d 250 that I bought this holyday season with windows 7 preinstalled on it and when I want to use the webcam, it says that it doesn't detect any video capture device on the system. What should I do?

  • Did this and it fritzed the partition table of my second HD in the windows PC I used. Am four days into recovering the data from it, so am not amused.

  • BEWARE!!!!!!

    I did this on my PC and it fritzed the partition table of my second hard drive, EVEN though I immediately selected the Install from USB option. Have spent the past four days slowly recovering all the data from it - it was an 90% full 1.5 TB hd, so I am mightily pissed off.

    So - we have an unuseable Acer Aspire and an angry old man as a result of doing this.

  • "Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082)

    Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

    For Realtek RTL8101E/8102E PCI-E Ethernet Controller v.1.09 (080602)

    PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

    PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM

    No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key

  • Need Help This My College Computer And I Have No Disk

    "Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082)

    Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

    For Realtek RTL8101E/8102E PCI-E Ethernet Controller v.1.09 (080602)

    PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable

    PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM

    No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key

  • is it called the system cd

  • is this the model number for the one ur using AOA110-1588

  • at 0:11 that's all i had to do is press alt F10 then it went to acer recovery

  • Thank you so much this was a money saver !!!!!

  • YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER! I would hug you if you didn't live so far away!

  • Hi, we have a little Acer One Linux version, basically it's stuck. It has a small image on it that looks like a brightness symbol that says the item is not configured. Also the menu bar at the bottom left has disappeared. We've tried the Acer website wich is useless, we've lost the cd that come with the comp. Any idea's mate? As you can probaly tell I am completely computer illiterate.

    Here's hoping you can help, Thanking you in anticipation, Brian.

  • OK Our litle Acer Aspire One Linux has a small window on it, it looks like a brightness symbol. It says this item is not yet configured. There is no mini-bar appearing at the right bottom corner. We have lost the recovery disc. Is there anyway we can get the computer back to original spec, the Acer website is hopeless. We have tried to download a remedy without success, as you can seeI don't talk computer ! Anyway it would be nice if you could help. Thanks & Regards Brian. Thanks 4 your help.

  • @kalengu Hi there: The easiest solution here is to go to your local Acer website (you're in UK right?) and look for the closest call center for you. Call them and ask for a CD.

    There are other alternatives (downloading it from file sharing sites, for example) but that's a lot more complex and I wouldn't recommend it.

  • I'm tryin to recover a acer 5315-2077 fuckin help plez

  • hey man thanks soo much i didnt do the exact method u did instead i brought a external usb disk drive but i used your method there with f 12 and the selection process thanks for a top notch video keep up the good work m8

  • @pipper3rowdy As long as it works, we're all winners. Thanks for letting us know.

  • Thank you SO MUCH for this - I was on the verge of paying £30 for someone else to do it. Simple when you know how eh?

  • @geordiewatcher Thanks for letting me know it worked. You're right I guess: it *is* easy once you know how, even if you still have to jump through flaming hoops to do it. £30 saved. Brilliant.

  • i dont have another acer pc .. i have dell laptop .. ur steps are not working .. what to do plz ?

  • My Aspire One has been nothing but problems, so syked I got a new pc.

  • Can you use a normal pc like bell to install the cd to the flash

    Drive because when im trying to install it to the flash drive my computer freeze.

  • now if only ALL laptops came with this option. The Acer Aspire 1410 does not have an optical drive but the Acer eRecovery DVDs require booting from an optical drive; and does not include an option to install the recovery software to a USB flash drive. I've even tried manually copying the DVDs to a flash drive which does actually boot; however after a few steps in it still asks to insert the original recovery dvds instead of copying the files from the flash drive it just booted from. RIDICULOUS

  • There is a recovery DVD? I threw that sucker away n just put in WinXP! BTW thx for the friend invite :)

  • may you help me my acer aspire one windows xp got a virus and idk how to do the process where you return things to factory default because this is different from my HP pc where it saids press f10 for factory default or something so yeah may you please help?

  • @tsaelite The answer is the same as everyone else. To reset a Windows-based Acer computer to its factory default settings: Press ALT + F10 the moment you see the Acer logo when you turn it on. That will launch e-Recovery and you can reset it from there. YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE so save your files to an external drive before you do this OK?

  • @TheAcerGuy thank you it doesnt matter for me because my acer aspire one is just my internet watching videos on youtube or do random stuff thing thank you for helping me

  • @TheAcerGuy i tried this and it wont go into e-recovery... matter of fact it didn't even do anything... it just asks me if i wanna boot in safe mode and all that crap... then it'll start gimme a blue screen which i cant even read an then reboots an does it all over again.... think u can get me passed this crap?

  • @Skrappy39 also i own the Acer Aspire one 16 gb... the ones that dont use disks.... so i'm really puzzled on what to do

  • @TheAcerGuy I know the steps to restore the Acer to default by pressing ALT + F10 but let´s say that I want to go back to Windows XP after installing Win7. I am wondering if the option software ALT + F10 eRecovery will still available after installing Win7? How I can create these Factory Recover disks?

  • if you don't mind i a quick q? to you or anyone else reading this. now where do i get the windows 7 starter if there was no CD with my acfer labtop. is there a webstie or what?

  • i have a aspire one with windows 7 starter it is a acer product how can i restore it to factory settings without saving anything i want it like it was brand new plz help thanks theacerguy

  • @FunAndJokes Press ALT + F10 the moment you see the Acer logo when you turn it on. That will launch e-Recovery and you can reset it from there. YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE so save your files to an external drive before you do this OK?

  • @TheAcerGuy

    hey tanks for the help men!!

  • thanks thanks thanks :D

  • hi, i was wondering if you know a lot of graphics. If you do please respond. I need technical support because i think the graphics on my laptop are not up to par. You see i have an acer aspire 5739g-6959 with the nvidia 240m card. So i was playing "left for dead" and i keep getting fps of 30s. Why is that?? i read that i should be getting 70+. My windows experience index says i have a score of 4.5. Please help if you know how to fix this graphic issue!!!!!! Wasted 2 years of my money into this

  • Morris says: "It depends more on the screen refresh rate that is locked at 60Hz so, the maximum should only be 60 (realistically, you will see 57-9 rarely actually 60. Performance is also dependent on the resolution you are running, 240m is only a 128bit card, it is very limited, the lower the bit, the bigger the performance hit on different resolutions.

    I have HD3650, overclocked too, and 6.4 in windows index score. I still can't run left 4 dead per