Acer Aspire T180 PC Desktop fails to boot

You will need the correct Acer disc for your model to work or a store bought disc from Microsoft which works on all PC's

This is either a corrupt file system or a bad hard drive. You'll need to boot from a Rescue CD like BartPE or a Windows CD and run chkdsk on the drive to see if the file system has just become corrupt. If that fails, you may need to run "fixboot" and "fixmbr" from the recovery console. If those fail, or if chkdsk comes back and says it can't repair the damage, then you probably need a new hard drive.

You can do it without disk to but for it should be hiddden partition is installled when your vista is load first time.For that
There is one option in bios D2d enable it .then save settings.
For enter bios when you power up the computer press F1 or F2 or "del" key then go to main menu find D2d
then enable then save and exit.
Then when it restart press ALT +F2
then you see recovery mode follow the procedure and wiped acer.
But if there is not any recoverry then you need recovery disk.

Let me know if you need more assistanse.
Thanks.

You will need to burn a Recovery CD / DVD set from the icon located on the desktop/ In your Acer Home Start utility (The window loading at startup) or from the Start Menu.

Using this disk you will be able to do a System Restore back to original factory setup.

Click start,all programs, look for Acer folder, you are looking for recovery media creator, have a couple of blank DVD-/+R and follow the instructions to create a restore set, you can only make one set,(until you restore again, then you COULD make another set). This only makes a copy of the factory installed software, it doesn't back up any of your personal data.
To restore, put the 1st disk in, and restart the PC, follow the prompts to boot to CD/DVD and start restore

Borrow any Vista install DVD and boot from it

Follow it through until you are asked if you want to install Vista or Repair your Computer
Select repair and let it do its thing - it may work
Failing that its a full reinstall by the sounds of it

If it does not offer you the initial boot option then look on the boot screen for the boot options key - probably F11 or F12 - and press that during initial boot to obtain the boot options screen

I wiped out my Acer Aspire T180 , bought the system and recovery disc from Acer but after loading them it starts to load windows vista little bar goes across with the green in it then the vista backround then a box will pop up saying , there was an unexplained error and windows restarted unexpectedly so you need to restart windows now but then get the same box all over again. HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!

replace your RAM

Hi Jen05.

When the computer boots, if it asks for an O.S.
(operating system) hilghlight "Windows Vista" and press enter.

If it asks whether to run Windows Vista or something like:
"Windows Recovery Console (reccomended)", select Windows Recovery Console. Follow the steps until it asks if you wish to run System Restore. Click the appropriate response that basically denies this suggestion. Let it go through the steps (you may need to press "Next").

Once it is done, restart Windows as you normally would.
If the problem persists, try the following:


When the computer boots, if it asks for an O.S.
(operating system) hilghlight "Windows Vista" and press F8.

Now scroll down to something along the lines of:
"Safe mode - core drivers only" and press enter.

When it loads the desktop, it is normal for there to be incorrect graphics, missing desktop image, etc.

Now virus scan the entire computer with every anti-virus and spyware software you have. Fix problems found with the programs as needed. Now reboot the PC as you normally would.

If it STILL doesn't boot correctly, or at all, please say so;
I am willing to provide all my knowlege to help as much as I can.

Perform a system recovery:
Does not come with recovery cd's - there is a program that allows you to burn the disks or
recover.
3 ways:

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 ge into Windows then Alt/F10 during boot right after Acer splash screen on startup
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