Acer Aspire V5-571G Recovery Partition
I bought an Acer Aspire V5-571pg early last year. I remembered at the time that the C drive was too big. I normally have a large collection of data which I store in the E (data) drive away from the OS drive. So naturally I used partition magic to resize. Little did I know that it is causing me such grief when I try to do a restore.
At this point, I need to restore the system to the factory default. In doing so, I get this error:
"Hard drive configuration is not set to the factory default. Restore aborted."
Upon checking the partition, the drive structure appears to be:
- Unallocated: 1MB
- OEM Partition: 400MB
- EFI System Partition: 300MB
- Other: 128MB
- ACER C: 194.55GB
- Recovery Partition: 350MB
- DATA E: 488.28GM
- Push Button Reset: 14.65GB
- Unallocated: 871KB
Why the hell does ACER need so many bloody partitions? And why did they put the recovery drive smack bang in between drive C and E. In any case, I believe that it could be the fact that I resized the drive and shifted the Recovery Partition to the left causing the restore to fail to read the start of the recovery section.
I can't even begin to fathom where it originally was, as there is no manual to cover such issue. Does anyone know how Acer Recovery Utility determine what section of the drive to look for? And if so, what section is it so that I can use the Partition magic to put it back in the right place?
acer-aspire factory-defaults
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I bought an Acer Aspire V5-571pg early last year. I remembered at the time that the C drive was too big. I normally have a large collection of data which I store in the E (data) drive away from the OS drive. So naturally I used partition magic to resize. Little did I know that it is causing me such grief when I try to do a restore.
At this point, I need to restore the system to the factory default. In doing so, I get this error:
"Hard drive configuration is not set to the factory default. Restore aborted."
Upon checking the partition, the drive structure appears to be:
- Unallocated: 1MB
- OEM Partition: 400MB
- EFI System Partition: 300MB
- Other: 128MB
- ACER C: 194.55GB
- Recovery Partition: 350MB
- DATA E: 488.28GM
- Push Button Reset: 14.65GB
- Unallocated: 871KB
Why the hell does ACER need so many bloody partitions? And why did they put the recovery drive smack bang in between drive C and E. In any case, I believe that it could be the fact that I resized the drive and shifted the Recovery Partition to the left causing the restore to fail to read the start of the recovery section.
I can't even begin to fathom where it originally was, as there is no manual to cover such issue. Does anyone know how Acer Recovery Utility determine what section of the drive to look for? And if so, what section is it so that I can use the Partition magic to put it back in the right place?
acer-aspire factory-defaults
edited Oct 2 '17 at 6:54
Journeyman Geek♦
112k44217371
asked Oct 9 '14 at 7:42
chrollichrolli
10613
add a comment |
I bought an Acer Aspire V5-571pg early last year. I remembered at the time that the C drive was too big. I normally have a large collection of data which I store in the E (data) drive away from the OS drive. So naturally I used partition magic to resize. Little did I know that it is causing me such grief when I try to do a restore.
At this point, I need to restore the system to the factory default. In doing so, I get this error:
"Hard drive configuration is not set to the factory default. Restore aborted."
Upon checking the partition, the drive structure appears to be:
- Unallocated: 1MB
- OEM Partition: 400MB
- EFI System Partition: 300MB
- Other: 128MB
- ACER C: 194.55GB
- Recovery Partition: 350MB
- DATA E: 488.28GM
- Push Button Reset: 14.65GB
- Unallocated: 871KB
Why the hell does ACER need so many bloody partitions? And why did they put the recovery drive smack bang in between drive C and E. In any case, I believe that it could be the fact that I resized the drive and shifted the Recovery Partition to the left causing the restore to fail to read the start of the recovery section.
I can't even begin to fathom where it originally was, as there is no manual to cover such issue. Does anyone know how Acer Recovery Utility determine what section of the drive to look for? And if so, what section is it so that I can use the Partition magic to put it back in the right place?
acer-aspire factory-defaults
edited Oct 2 '17 at 6:54
Journeyman Geek♦
112k44217371
asked Oct 9 '14 at 7:42
chrollichrolli
10613
I bought an Acer Aspire V5-571pg early last year. I remembered at the time that the C drive was too big. I normally have a large collection of data which I store in the E (data) drive away from the OS drive. So naturally I used partition magic to resize. Little did I know that it is causing me such grief when I try to do a restore.
At this point, I need to restore the system to the factory default. In doing so, I get this error:
"Hard drive configuration is not set to the factory default. Restore aborted."
Upon checking the partition, the drive structure appears to be:
- Unallocated: 1MB
- OEM Partition: 400MB
- EFI System Partition: 300MB
- Other: 128MB
- ACER C: 194.55GB
- Recovery Partition: 350MB
- DATA E: 488.28GM
- Push Button Reset: 14.65GB
- Unallocated: 871KB
Why the hell does ACER need so many bloody partitions? And why did they put the recovery drive smack bang in between drive C and E. In any case, I believe that it could be the fact that I resized the drive and shifted the Recovery Partition to the left causing the restore to fail to read the start of the recovery section.
I can't even begin to fathom where it originally was, as there is no manual to cover such issue. Does anyone know how Acer Recovery Utility determine what section of the drive to look for? And if so, what section is it so that I can use the Partition magic to put it back in the right place?
acer-aspire factory-defaults
acer-aspire factory-defaults
edited Oct 2 '17 at 6:54
Journeyman Geek♦
112k44217371
asked Oct 9 '14 at 7:42
chrollichrolli
10613
edited Oct 2 '17 at 6:54
Journeyman Geek♦
112k44217371
asked Oct 9 '14 at 7:42
chrollichrolli
10613
edited Oct 2 '17 at 6:54
Journeyman Geek♦
112k44217371
edited Oct 2 '17 at 6:54
Journeyman Geek♦
112k44217371
edited Oct 2 '17 at 6:54
Journeyman Geek♦
112k44217371
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asked Oct 9 '14 at 7:42
chrollichrolli
10613
asked Oct 9 '14 at 7:42
chrollichrolli
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asked Oct 9 '14 at 7:42
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What comes to mind:
- Go back in time and burn recovery DVDs.
- Try asking Acer support / forums, that's probably your best chance of finding someone who really knows about Acer recovery partitions.
- Forget about it and reinstall windows yourself.
Download windows iso from microsoft (possible for windows 7, probably for windows 8 as well) and reinstall using the key on your laptop sticker. Install missing drivers.
answered Oct 9 '14 at 9:52
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What comes to mind:
- Go back in time and burn recovery DVDs.
- Try asking Acer support / forums, that's probably your best chance of finding someone who really knows about Acer recovery partitions.
- Forget about it and reinstall windows yourself.
Download windows iso from microsoft (possible for windows 7, probably for windows 8 as well) and reinstall using the key on your laptop sticker. Install missing drivers.
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What comes to mind:
- Go back in time and burn recovery DVDs.
- Try asking Acer support / forums, that's probably your best chance of finding someone who really knows about Acer recovery partitions.
- Forget about it and reinstall windows yourself.
Download windows iso from microsoft (possible for windows 7, probably for windows 8 as well) and reinstall using the key on your laptop sticker. Install missing drivers.
answered Oct 9 '14 at 9:52
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What comes to mind:
- Go back in time and burn recovery DVDs.
- Try asking Acer support / forums, that's probably your best chance of finding someone who really knows about Acer recovery partitions.
- Forget about it and reinstall windows yourself.
Download windows iso from microsoft (possible for windows 7, probably for windows 8 as well) and reinstall using the key on your laptop sticker. Install missing drivers.
answered Oct 9 '14 at 9:52
lemonsqueezelemonsqueeze
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What comes to mind:
- Go back in time and burn recovery DVDs.
- Try asking Acer support / forums, that's probably your best chance of finding someone who really knows about Acer recovery partitions.
- Forget about it and reinstall windows yourself.
Download windows iso from microsoft (possible for windows 7, probably for windows 8 as well) and reinstall using the key on your laptop sticker. Install missing drivers.
answered Oct 9 '14 at 9:52
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