Acer Aspire 5100 recovery question

mattb811 · 08-17-2008, 12:58 PM

Hi All,

My Acer Aspire 5100 seems to be riddled with Spyware etc and I have been advised to just start again by using the recovery disks. However I don't have any recovery disks

Essentially I just want to restore the laptop to factory settings. Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this?

Thanks

**TriggerFinger** · 08-17-2008, 01:00 PM

Try this Laptop Recovery Instructions

Or you can try ACER website/customer support and order a recovery/restore CD for your model.

mattb811 · 08-17-2008, 01:46 PM

Thanks a lot for your help but Alt-F10 doesn't seem to do anything...

**TriggerFinger** · 08-18-2008, 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattb811

Thanks a lot for your help but Alt-F10 doesn't seem to do anything...

Timing is everything when you use ALT+F10. It only works if you still have your recovery partition but if you have formatted the whole drive once before, then that could be the reason why ALT+F10 does not work.

If you want to restore DEFAULT applications and operating system then you can try to order from ACER.

08-17-2008, 12:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
mattb811 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp	Acer Aspire 5100 recovery question Hi All, My Acer Aspire 5100 seems to be riddled with Spyware etc and I have been advised to just start again by using the recovery disks. However I don't have any recovery disks Essentially I just want to restore the laptop to factory settings. Does anyone have any ideas how I can do this? Thanks

08-17-2008, 01:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,823 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Acer Aspire 5100 recovery question Try this Laptop Recovery Instructions Or you can try ACER website/customer support and order a recovery/restore CD for your model. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Disk Copy HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE

08-17-2008, 01:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
mattb811 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp	Re: Acer Aspire 5100 recovery question Thanks a lot for your help but Alt-F10 doesn't seem to do anything...