Acer Hidden Recovery Partition

[deathroll]

Thanks for your response, greveakira. I'll try this.

[greveakira]

Btw. depending on what software you use to unhide and make active the hidden partition, you might have to mount the drive and assign a drive letter. I believe there was a case where it only worked when I gave it the drive letter X.
My memory could play tricks on me though, even though its unlikely since I cant remember that I have ever forgotten anything

[toninhodf]

Hello,

Easy to recreate the hidden partition on Acer ASPIRE 4553-1_BR333.
Remembering the Windows 7 uses seven.
Come on!
you need to have 3 DVDs

Create a folder AcerBoot
Create a folder within this D2D create IMAGES sub-folder and patch.

Recovery1 copy it into the folder AcerBoot DVD minus all the Images folder.
Copy the folder of the DVD into the IMAGES folder D2D.

Recovery2 copy the entire DVD into the folder D2D.
Recovery3 copy the entire DVD into the folder D2D.

Ready your PQservice is done.

Now create 3 files using Notepad windows.

A file must be saved as: "ImageInfo.dat"

[ImageInfo]
ImageCount = 138
IMAGEVERSION = RV03RC01
ImageLanguage = XX
ImageName = POP0109P0PXX1C31
ImagePath = \ D2D \ Images \

2 file must be saved as: "RCD.dat"

; AS4553/AS4553G w7 HomeBasic_X64_XX IMAGE SERIES CD
; XX VERSION RV03RC01
[MAIN]
OS = w7 HomeBasic
= X64 CPU
MODEL = AS4553/AS4553G
CDTYPE RCD =
LANG = XX
LANG_FULL WW = Multi-Base
VERSION = RV03RC01
PN = POP0109P0PXX1C31
PCS = 2
ManagerXVersion = 4, 0, 0, 6
PreloadXVersion = 4, 0, 0, 6
ImageCount = 138
Brand = acer
RCD IN = RV.NBFA7.00R
BaseImg = Y
Group = Generic (Office 2010)
SkuDisplayName = Windows 7 Home Basic

3 file must be saved as: "SystemCD.dat"

[Main]
Project = aHornet_Lite
MODEL = AS4553 / AS4553G
PN = POP0109P0PXX1C31
Version = RV00RC03
CDType = SystemCD
ManagerXVersion = 4, 0, 0, 6
Brand = Acer - Aspire
[Language]
= 00
01 = EN
ES = 02
A1 =
AF =
AR =
AS =
AT =
AU =
BG =
BN =
CA =
CS =
CY =
D0 = A
D2 = A
D3 = A
DA =
DE =
E0 = EN
E1 = EN
E2 = EN
E3 = EN
E4 = EN
E5 = EN
E6 = EN
E7 = EN
E8 = EN
E9 = EN
EL =
EN =
ES =
ET =
I =
F0 = FR
FR = F1
F2 = FR
F3 = FR
F4 = FR
F5 = FR
FA =
FI =
FL =
FR =
GL =
GU =
HE =
HI =
HR =
HU =
IT = I0
I2 = IT
I3 = IT
CI =
Id =
IR =
IT =
JA =
KA =
KK =
KN =
KO =
KS =
LB =
LT =
LV =
MA =
MH =
MI =
MK
ML =
MR =
MT =
N0 = NL
N2 = NL
N3 = NL
NE =
NL =
NO =
P0 = PL
PA =
PL =
PS =
PT =
Wh =
R0 = RU
RO =
RU =
S0 = S
S1 = S
S2 = S
S3 = S
SC =
SK =
SL =
SQ =
SR =
SV =
SW =
TA =
TC =
TE =
TH =
TR =
U0 = EN
U1 = EN
U2 = EN
U3 = EN
U4 = EN
U5 = EN
U6 = EN
UK =
UR =
VI =
X0 = EN
X1 = EN
X2 = EN
X3 = EN
X4 = EN
X5 = EN
X6 = EN
X7 = EN
X8 = EN
XC =
XX = EN
ZH = CT

[RonBo77]

Hi, I am new to this forum. I too had a problem with the Alt+F10 not working. The Gateway M-1628 I was working on for a customer has Vista Home Premium and the OS was so corrupted I had to do a reinstall. Had no recovery discs, and could not get them from Acer so I attempted a reinstall from a Dell OEM disc which installed ok but would not activate the product key. So, I resolved to try to make the recovery partition work even though the Alt+F10 was not functional. I searched on several forums for a solution and found what many of you found - the mbrwrwin install rtmbr.bin process. I unhid the D:Recovery partition hidden folders and searched for any of those files to copy to the C: and found none. I gave up on that to search the recovery partition for anything helpful and found a folder that had all of the install programs with each separate folder with a long alphanumeric name and went through each one and found the one for erecovery or Gateway Recovery Center. I ran the install and then I had erecovery function again and executed the recovery.

This may or may not work for anyone with the same problem whether it be Acer or Gateway or even Emachine, after benefitting from so many forums I wanted to return a favor if it would work out that way

[toninhodf]

I need the User and password of this server that has the NAPP CD. User and password provided on the site do not work. Can anyone help? Thanks to everyone here at the forum.

Server Login

[raserdk]

actually i uploaded this ages ago, in 2008 and here it is
https://rapidshare.com/files/140665565/AMPP150W.iso

but there are so many,
i allso have some called
STCDBOOT.iso - 121 MB
DiskFormatDT_V1-1D.iso - 209 MB
AMPP150W.iso - 8.20 MB
nappcd.iso - 558 MB
another nappcd.iso - 8.20 MB

[toninhodf]

actually i uploaded this ages ago, in 2008 and here it is
https://rapidshare.com/files/140665565/AMPP150W.iso

but there are so many,
i allso have some called
STCDBOOT.iso - 121 MB
DiskFormatDT_V1-1D.iso - 209 MB
AMPP150W.iso - 8.20 MB
nappcd.iso - 558 MB
another nappcd.iso - 8.20 MB

Thank you! but in this model funiona AS4553? I have the DVD's produced at the factory. I want to build the partition PQSERVICE. Deleted because the site I downloaded a windows microsoft Windows 8 and created the DVD and erased everything here.

[toninhodf]

The NAPP CDs are different for each model. What is the exact model of the machine. I have a number of NAPP cds here what I can send. If its the same as the Aspire 1360 then I should be able to help you. If you already have the required CD then you will need to completely get rid of norton ghost (if you have it installed, best way is to reformat everything) as it messes up the installation and nothing will change. I also suggest that you backup all of your data as it will be lost

Hello penrynTech, I believe it is only to help me, I need NAPP cd for the model I have in Brazil. Aspire 4553-1_BR333. I deleted the recovery partition and wanted to recreate it again. Can you help? Sorry for my ignorance of English, but I'm using google translator. I speak Portuguese and inda'm trying to learn English. But I'm 37 years old.

[hokies]

Hi all,

Hoping someone is still following this thread that might be able to help.

Short story is, I have an Acer Aspire 3620 that I installed Ubuntu on to give it a try - leaving Windows XP intact. Well now I'd like to restore to factory to sell this PC and of course I can't get into the recovery partition any longer. I have verified that the recovery partition is intact, and tried to follow the procedure below. When I tried the command mbrwrwin.exe install rtmbr.bin, instead of completing successfully I got a message that said "Can't find room for old mbr" followed by a bunch of numbers. Any ideas?

I also tried the procedure in this thread on message #459 (the one embedded as a quote) but it didn't work. When I get the GRUB menu, I only have a choice for the regular Windows XP partition.

Thanks for any help!

Hi everyone ...i have had all the same problems you guys/girls have had.
So, I registerd on here to tell you how i did it,and i am very dim when it comes to laptops and stuff..OK....

The First thing i did was... Right click (My Computer) and select (Manage)
In Manage scroll down to (Disk Management)
If you see a hidden Partion called PQSERVICE with no Drive letter then you have the Erecovery Files.......

First.... Dowload a programe called PTEDIT.

Second.. Launch PTEDIT in Win XP. pqservice is set as type 12, change it to type 07, and save,and Reboot, and it will be asign a drive letter when you log back in and the hidden partion is no longer hidden,you will now be able to carry out the next step

Third.. Useing search Look for (mbrwrwin) and (rtmbr) both of these will show up as being in the hidden partion (which now has a drive letter) in the search result..

Fourth... Copy both (mbrwrwin) (rtmbr.bin) to your main C:

Fith... Go to Start > Run > Type CMD and this will open your CMD Promt
In CMD Promt type the word cd\
This will then give you the start line of C:
In this area type the exact line..... mbrwrwin install rtmbr.bin
It should say it loaded somthing,

Sixth Reboot your computer and press ALT F10 after the post screen and your on your way to putting your laptop to Factory Settings

I did all this very easy and very quick in XP with no other use than PTEDIT
and no use of a recovery dvd as i forgot to make one

i REALLY hope this help you guys/girls coz it had me baffled for days trying to fix it.


Edit found a link for PTEDIT
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...s/PTEDIT32.zip

[Sits]

To make the hidden partition visible in windows use command prompt and type diskpart from there change the partition type to 7 find the volume give it a letter and jobs a gooden no extra software needed