Solved Unable to do Recovery nor Repair with disks I made.

[mawil1013]

My acer aspire 5336-2524 bricked. Windows 7 stopped working. I have the 4 Recovery Disks and a Repair Disk 64 bit. I did these when I first got the laptop. That's all I did, I didn't clone the system.

Anyway, I cannot figure out how to get the Win7 OS working again, I got ticked off and as a way to test the HD, I installed ubuntu and it works fine. I did a full install of ubuntu 10.4 but want to try fixing Win7.

The Practical BBQ'r!

update: I figure the 4 recovery disks burned off laptop are garbage, i downloaded windows7 OS for 32 bit which worked, well, almost worked, the issue ahead of me now is i need to reformat the hd to work with windows and not ubuntu, NTSB? is that the term??

Anyway, in the old days you could run a floppy with the basic commands on it, including erase and format HD, how do I do that on a laptop running pure ubuntu?? is there a website I can download from??

 

[VistaKing]

Hi mawil

Are you booting off the Recovery Discs you created ? The recovery discs will wipe your hard drive so you will loose your Ubuntu OS .

 

[mawil1013]

Ubuntu isn't an issue if I lose it, right now I inserted the repair disk, its telling me windows cannot find system image. Are the 4 recovery disks actually an image of OS? I inserted the first recovery disk into drive and same response that cannot find system image.

 

[VistaKing]

The 4 Recovery discs is an image of the Windows 7 that came with your laptop . If you like to have a clean Windows without the OEM Bloatware click on the link below . It will have everything you will need to get your PC running as new .

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

   Note

Please follow the tutorial step-by-step

 

[mawil1013]

The 4 Recovery discs is an image of the Windows 7 that came with your laptop . If you like to have a clean Windows without the OEM Bloatware click on the link below . It will have everything you will need to get your PC running as new .

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

   Note

Please follow the tutorial step-by-step

I was hoping to be able to use the 4 Recovery disks and Repair disk that came with the system. The Repair disks seems to be working up to where it won't do either of the following; 1. factory restore 2. Use image.

 

[VistaKing]

Factory restore will include the trial software that came with the laptop. The first time you turned on the laptop. What is the exact error message you get when you choose 1. Factory restore ?

 

[mawil1013]

Factory restore will include the trial software that came with the laptop. The first time you turned on the laptop. What is the exact error message you get when you choose 1. Factory restore ?

here's what I'm doing, power off the laptop, let the repair disk load, then, when I try to do factory restore or restore with image, it cannot find either, I'm restarting repair disk currently.

I select restore your computer using system image you created. there is something about loading drivers, but I click next,

message, windows cannot find system image on this PC, attach bkup hard disk or insert final DVD from bkup set and click retry, I do so and again greet same message about cannot find sys image.

 

[VistaKing]

Why you inputting the repair disc to do run the factory recovery discs that you created using the Acer software

 

[mawil1013]

Why you inputting the repair disc to do run the factory recovery discs that you created using the Acer software

I thought that was the procedure, if I power down and let disk 1 of the Recovery disk I get, status OxcOOOOOe9, info: an unexpected I/o error occurred

 

[VistaKing]

Run chkdsk /f on boot up.

To do this look at Option Two on the tutorial below

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html

 

[mawil1013]

Run chkdsk /f on boot up.

To do this look at Option Two on the tutorial below

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html

remember that I erased HD and installed Ubuntu.

 

[VistaKing]

Use the repair disc and choose command prompt

:ar: To enter System Recovery Options by using System Repair disc:
Insert the System Repair disc.
Restart your computer.
If prompted, press any key to start Windows from the installation disc. If your computer is not configured to start from a CD or DVD, check your BIOS settings.
Click Repair your computer.
Select US as the keyboard language settings, and then click Next.
Select the operating system you want to repair, and then click Next.
Select your user account and click Next.

To get to the command prompt with the repair disc do the steps below

:ar: On the System Recovery Options menu you will get the following options:
Startup Repair

System Restore

Windows Complete PC Restore

Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool

Command Prompt

Select Command Prompt

Then type in the command

chkdsk /f

 

[gregrocker]

If you installed another OS over Win7 then there's nothing to repair, so save the Repair Disk for when you have a Win7 install to repair.

You can run the Recovery disks but they reinstall all of the Acer crapware that throttles Win7 native performance. You'll get a much better install using Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7
which even provides the latest official Win7 installer for your licensed version.

If you want to try the Factory Recovery first, I'd see if the Recovery partition is still functional to run: Acer Support: Frequently Asked Questions list for Recovery media and Restoring a system to factory load

If not then try running the Recov disks in the order they were produced.

If the Recovery Disks won't run, try wiping the HD which you can use the Repair CD for. Boot it and at first screen press Shift + f10 to open a Command Line to run Diskpart Clean Command to wipe the HD to see if the disks will run now. If not do the Clean Reinstall which is vastly better anyway.b