Cannot activate Acer Laptop Recovery with Alt F10 key?

Question

Have had problems with BSODs on my brand new Acer Aspire5670 laptop. After reinstalling Windows Home Edition OS & Acer settings from a DVD backup and installing another XP Pro OS in drive d:, I have lost the Alt F10 function to start the PQService recovery. Any owners of Acer's laptop have similar hassle are welcome to suggest fix.

Recovering from a DVD backup always proceed to reformat the drive c:

Turns out my BSODs was caused by 1 faulty 526mb ram stick in a 1GB memory configuration.

New laptop ordered in partitioned C: and D: drives. Original drive layout c:/acer, d:/acerdata and the PQService hidden parition.

Bios setup D2D recovery was enabled. No new partitions were created. Previous attempts at PQServices recovery were successful until I installed XP Pro into Drive D. Preload.tag no longer exist on Drive C.

Answer 1

Dunno if u can get 2 run fdisk
delete partitions
re-create partitions
make c: active
format c: & d:
install win xp on c:

best of luck !

Answer 2

the letter of the partition which contains the pq recovery was changed when you added another partition for another os. just change the drive letter to what it was before. the machine was just searching for the recovery files on the wrong drive letter.

Answer 3

where is the d drive, did you partition c?, if so, then it might not work, vbecause it assumes everything to be the same, one drive, one partition. Also, it might not hurt to reset the bios, the bad ram could have messed it up

http://www.acer.co.th/service/recovery.htm

http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/portal20.cfm?recordid=853&formid=3390&website=AcerPanAm.com/us&siteid=7293&words=all&keywords=&areaid=7

hope this will help

Answer 4

Hi! Check if D2D recovery is on in BIOS...