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Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups

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micky wrote:
> I hope you know something about Acer or something generic that can
> help me. 
> 
> How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, where it asked
> the user to make Back-up DVDs?**  
> 
> My friend and I both have Acer Aspire One netbooks, his A150 or maybe
> D150  bought reconditioned and about 4 years old, my D250  bought used
> a month ago and about 2 years old. 
> 
> Both have some vesrion of Acer eRecovery Management.   I want to back
> up all his files like eRecovery intends. 
> 
> Mine used to ask me to make Back-up DVD's*** every time I started the
> computer (until I unchecked an entry^^ in MSCONFIG)  and the same
> screen asks if I want to Restore.   ^^But his msconfig doesn't have
> that entry.      And I can bring up a similar screen on his, but it
> only asks if I want to restore, nothing about Backup. 
> 
> 
> His otoh,doesn't ask anything at startup (though maybe it did when he
> first got it)  but the Help file for eRecovery says that it is
> possible to check a box on that litle screen regarding backups that
> says "Don't ask me this again?"   I think someone did that.   I want
> to uncheck it!
> 
> When I use Windows Exploerer to click on a file named something  like
> AcerErecoveryUI.exe, I get a small screen similar to the one on my
> computer,  asking if I want to restore, but not asking me if I want to
> back up   (I'm afraid to click on the other .exe files, or I did and
> they didn't do anything.) . 
> 
> How do I get it to ask me to Back-up, so I can back him up?  I looked
> through the registry and found a couple one character Words called
> Burndef_Reminder and eRecovery_Enable. that are set fo  1 or 0. I'm
> guessing that if one were changed, it would request the backups.  ( I
> haven't yet compared those values in my computer.) 
> 
> Sorry for flaws in this post.  I'm short of time because my friend
> plans to leave on trip in 4 days. 
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> 
> extraneeous info. 
> ** (Two sets of CDs or DVDs, ,one called a factory default disk and
> the other a drivers and applications disc.   With the original hard
> drive, it also has a separate process to get back to the way the
> computer was shipped, although only in one's first choice language.) 
> 
>  **and I will make backups for myself soon  after I install my
> standard suite of programs that I use. 

The manual makes no mention of how you can reverse it.

http://static.acer.com/up/Resource/Acer/Docs/PH/20110221/recovery.pdf

On my Acer laptop, there is a program "Recovery Management.exe" and
if I run that, I'm offered the option to create a "factory CD". Now,
I've already created factory DVDs when I got the laptop, so I don't
understand why it doesn't point out that they've already been burned.
Normally, that kind of software only allows one copy of DVDs to
be made (exactly why though, doesn't make sense to me, as the
Windows software should be protected by SLIC).

Have a look through the eRecovery program files folder, and see
what apps hide in there. Program Files/Acer/Acer eRecovery Management.

I tried running Procmon, and didn't catch the Recovery Management program
checking with any RegQueryKey operations. It's too bad there wasn't
an option in Procmon to just snag all registry ops for analysis.
It would take a few minutes to manually add those one at a time to
Procmon (from sysinternals.com).

    Paul

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How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-03-13 10:41 -0400
  Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> - 2013-03-13 11:07 -0400
    Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-03-13 11:49 -0400
      Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> - 2013-03-13 12:18 -0400
  Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2013-03-13 13:53 -0400
  Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2013-03-13 14:03 -0500
    Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-03-13 23:19 +0000
      Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2013-03-14 07:05 -0500
        Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2013-03-14 20:06 +0000
    Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2013-03-13 17:22 -0600
    Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-03-14 02:22 -0400
  Re: How do I restore Acer eRecovery to its initial state, asking to make backups micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-03-14 02:47 -0400

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