Remove the hard drive and reseat it back in place, this is enough in some cases in getting it started, no change! have the hardware tested for possible replacement.
SOURCE: Acer Aspire 3500 Lost Recovery Discs
Here are all of the downloads for your model laptop. I believe you will find that the disk you need is the last one on the list.
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/portal20.cfm?website=AcerPanAm.com/au&siteid=8116&areaid=12&formid=3394#results
SOURCE: Black screen NTDLR Press any key to restart
It sound like your hard drive has crashed. There is no easy solution to your problem. Here are a couple solutions. You need to run a "chkdsk". It will scan and fix file problems on your HD. To do this you can either download a boot disk like "Ultimate boot disk" or you can take the HD out of your laptop and attach it to another computer. Neither of these are easy, for the boot disk you need to have software that can burn a "iso image" to a cd and to attach the HD to another computer you have to have the proper adapter. I would be happy to walk you through either one of these, just let me know. The easist thing to do would be to contact Acer and get recovery cds then go buy a new hard drive. I would take the old one to the store, to be sure I got the right replacement HD.
SOURCE: i have 1recovery **** named aspire 5610 dvd2 should i have a dvd1 disk also
go to http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
download the iso and burn it to a cd.
boot your computer with it
read the explanations coming up on the screen and when you see that you can choose how to start, type "wizard"
choose the top choice (auto)
when it starts right click on the desktop and start GPARTED.
one of the discs will be marked as "boot"
right click the disc called "recovery" (or the one that is not marked as boot).
choose manage flags
set it to Boot.
press apply on top (not always needed tho)
in the left picture (the one that opened from the start)
type reboot
remove the cd when you see the acer logo again.
the acer recovery manger should start.
SOURCE: Cannot get alt + F10 to launch PQI recovery. Acer 5517
i think you have to go into the bios and enable the this...
I am not sure but i think you have to push f1 a view times to go into the bios,than you have to enable d2d in the bios.
SOURCE: i've been trying to restore my acer aspire one zg5
Follow etaf's instructions above, if you cannot enter the Acer recovery utility try this...
Do not press and hold Alt + F10. Do it like this... From the Acer splash screen press and hold the Alt key while constantly pecking the F10 key.
However, you want to save all of your photos, favorites folder, music etc. on an external disk or flash drive before entering the Acer restore utility above. Anything that DID NOT come pre-installed on your netbook will be lost. Once restored, always, always, always back up your system with an external disk or flash drive as you go, meaning that as you add legitimate software and personal files to your PC and your PC works normally, back it up. It's cheap and the next time this happens you can enter plug in your flash or disk run the restore, and have EVERYTHING back including the stuff that did not come on your system when you bought it.
Select models have the ability to have the operating system reinstalled from a hidden drive built into the computer.This will RESET the computer to its Factory Settings( DATA LOSS )
To start the system recovery:
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