Before you perform the upgrade to Windows or just to make backups, Vista it is recommended that you create a CD/DVD backup of either the Acer Recovery CDs which are preinstalled in the hidden partition of your Notebook or a self created user backup which can exist on partition D: of your harddisk and will be shown only by the eRecovery utility. With these backups you will able to go back to your old configuration at any poin tin time in efect creating a complete Factory Reset Or Factory System Recovery
** PLEASE NOTE The default eRecovery password is “000000”
You must have a D: partition on your hard drive which is default setting by Acer Factory preload. : partition must be big enough for your user backup and it must be FAT32 formatted. If these requirements are not met eRecovery and this proceedure will not work
Start the eManager with the “e”-key on your notebook or the “e”-icon on your Windows desktop ( pict 1)
Choose eRecovery
You will be prompted for a password. The default password is “000000”. If you have changed the password during usage of eRecovery please use your own password (pict 2)
Choose option “Recovery settings” to create a backup of your own user configuration or a backup of the original Acer Recovery image. (pict 3)
Choose option “Backup Snapshot image” to make a backup of your own current configuration (pict 4)
Choose option “Backup to optical device” to create the backup image of your current configuration to a CD or DVD (pict 5)
Yo may need ore than one Cd or DVD, this will depend on the size of the system you are trying to backup, this number is displayed next (pict 6)
To make the backup the laptop must restart in eRecovery mode. You have to confirm this restart.
The first backup Disk that will be created will be bootable and allows you to reinstall the whole system even if the hdd was completely wipped.
When creating more than one CD/DVD you should number the media ie Disk 1 , Disk 2 etc as ONLY disk one is bootable (pict 7)
If you want to create the original Acer Recovery CD/DVD please choose option “Burn image to disc” (pict 8)
Choose the the Factory default image (pict 9)
This procedure doesn´t involve a system reset. You will betold the number of CD or DVDs that you will need to complete the backup of the Acer Recovery CD/DVD. Remember that ONLY the first CD/DVD of this process will be bootable (pict 10)
