I want to restore my acer aspire 5920 to factory settings without disk.also a toshiba recovery disc was tried so now it thinks its a toshiba. help please

sounds like a bad second disc ,go to their website and download the second disc

Hi
Please save any files or photo,s that you may have on your laptop ist


Then you could try this method without using the disks
Click Start" menu

Click Programs

Click Acer Recovery Management

Click the Restore button on the bottom of the dialog box that opens

Click Restore System to Factory Default

Click Yes in the warning dialog box which asks if you wish to continue the recovery process

Click yes Start to restore the computer to the default factory settings

Sometimes there is a default acer password which is quite often 000000 that is 6 zero's

or place the recovery disk into your cd

restart the laptop pressing F12 i believe

then follow on screen instructions

many thanks

please let us know if this has helped you so that we can hopefully help others

There is no way to restore it towards factory settings without the restore disc on your model.

Assuming the Recovery Partition hasn't been disturbed, boot the machine and press ALT + F10 at the same time. You will enter a recovery phase that will give you the option of restoring to factory settings. If the Recovery Partition HAS been either disturbed or wiped out, you will not be able to restore to Factory Settings without a set of disks from Acer.

Hi,

Formatting without disc is slow on all laptop brand.

If you want a fast formatting use the installation disc.

Thanks.

Then you need the Windows OS disc and drivers. You should've done a backup disc when you first got it.

Creating recovery discs After setting up the computer for the first time, be sure to create a set of recovery discs of the full factory image. the recovery discs are used to start up (boot) the computer and recover the operating system and software to factory settings in case of system instability or failure.

Your best play is to restore the machine to the factory settings. To do this, power up the machine and immediately press ALT+F10. From there you will enter Acer eRecovery Management which will give you the option of returning the machine to the factory settings.

WARNING: This will erase everything you had stored on the machine!! ie data files, pictures etc...

it may be a corrupt recovery disc

if u want to restore to factory default settings simply follow this procedure without inserting recovery disk

When you first turn on the laptop and see the Acer logo screen, hold the ALT key and press the F10 key (you need to do this before the Acer logo disappears).

everything will be restored to factory default settings

do rate me if it helps ur problem

Perform a system recovery:
Acer computer's do not ship with recovery CD's - there is a program that allows you to burn the disks or recover.
3 ways to recover:

1. If in Windows - Start - Programs - Acer empowering technology - Acer E-recovery management -
click on Restore at bottom then "Restore to factory default settings"
2. Or click on Burn disks instead of Restore
3. If unable to boot into Windows then tap Alt/F10 during boot right after Acer splash screen when starting up the computer.
4. This will start the Acer E-recovery program - choose Factory Default Settings and follow instructions.
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