Acer eRecovery Manager Lost Password Recovery by Britec

Acer eRecovery Manager Lost Password Recovery by britec.co.uk
Linux CD http://www.slax.org

Like many others, the first time that you launch eRecovery on your laptop you have use a password. Then the months the years passed, and you need eRecovery, but now you forgot the password...

Note : The method can be very different with your model, but the principle remains the same one, there must be a file which stores your password, and it must be in one of the most recent files since you changed your password.

Note 2: Vista compatibility

This problem is solved very easily, makes a right click on the partedit32 icon, goes in properties, clicks on the tab compatibility and set the compatibility on winxp or win98.

For Vista and Xp add run as an administrator.

Method n°1 :

1. Download Partedit32 launch the program and change the type of the partition pqservice from 27 to 7.

2. Restart the computer press F2 on boot to enter the bios, and then disable the option (d2drecovery).

3. Restart and press F8 several times until you reach the Windows recovery menu, choose the option : command prompt. The windows open and now there is a letter for a new drive, x for example.

4. Type "dir" and seek the file "aimdrs.dat". Then type this command at the prompt : "Copy aimdrs.dat C:"

5. Restart your computer normally, open a notepad browse for your file open it and recover your password. Do not forget to restore your partition pqservice in its initial state with partedit32, and to reactivate the D2D recovery option in the bios.

Method n°2 :

With a Linux boot CD make :

1. Cd /mnt

2. mkdir acer

3. mount - T vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/acer

4. cat /tools/aimdrs.dat

Here is your password.

Warning : for more recent laptop with SATA disc replace "hda1" with "sda1".

http://www.pcrepairhertfordshire.co.uk
http://www.briteccomputers.co.uk
http://www.britec.org.uk

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Recovery
• Acer
• Manager

[joanajhea]

i have asphire 4730z, my erecovery is missing, i downloaded the erecovery app but when i install it, it says "can not be installed - 6. softwaredisc .. what does it mean??? help pls!

[Britec09]

@joanajhea please post on tech forum for help briteccomputers . co . uk/forum

[TheFantaMan321]

Im using an acer aspire l100 mini pc all went fine until the "cat /tools/aimdrs.dat"

says that directory does not exist. does anyone know the right directory for it?

Cheers

[Britec09]

try this command:

cd /mnt

sudo mkdir acer

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/acer

cd acer

cat aimdrs.dat

[acdice7]

Also, no need to reverse the hidden partition steps to re hide the pqservice partition, cause after the recovery it puts everything back to factory stasus, with it hidden again!

[acdice7]

I used meathod 1 and could not find it in the pqservice partition in windows. Tried #2, and it worked. There was no tools directory. The file aimdrs.dat was in acer in sda1. Saw the password and this let me access the eRecovery partion and restore computer. In windows I did a search for all ,dat files and it never showed. What confuses me is why is that file only visable in a Linux environment? It was created on Windows. Anyways, thanks for your help!

[crunchynut55]

it says ''special device /dev/hda1 does not exist '' HELP PLEASE

[sy2pie]

Im sorry i cannot find Linux CD on that site anywhere

[Krissypoo112]

I NEED HELP DOESNT WORK !

[Krissypoo112]

will it work with acer aspire 7540-1284

[martvlas1]

Thanks!

[MCJeffree6969]

I agree, worked like a charm, password was exactly where it said it would be. I knew nothing about this stuff and I still managed to figure it out. I used Slax btw to create the Linux bootable CD and as i type my Acer is recovering...thank you so much for the help!!

[g1asseye]

Great video. Saved me a lot of time and money!

[albertoz80]

Dude is there other way