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trying to restore laptop

  • 13-08-2009 9:19pm
    #1
    passingthrough
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭


    i have an acer laptop and have been trying to restore it to factory setting but i cant. im trying alt +F10 on startup but that brings up some other option which basically just starts up vista.

    is there any other ways of doing it?


Comments

  • #2
    Quilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭Quilly


    Reformat the whole thing if u still have the vista CD, and reinstall


  • #3
    passingthrough
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭passingthrough


    what if i dont have the cd?
    iv done it before using alt and f10 but now its different and not sure why


  • #4
    kikel
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭kikel


    Maybe your recovery paritition is corrupt.


  • #5
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Can you give us more details?

    Make and model of laptop?
    OS installed? I know you said Vista, but for some people Vista == Windows == DOS.
    Basic hardware specs e.g. built in CDROM yay or nay, RAM, CPU etc.

    Once we know this we can be of more use.


  • #6
    lmcomputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭lmcomputer


    If your recovery partition doesn't work, you will need to use oem or retail windows disc to reinstall operating system. This will be more complicated than using recovery partition because after windows is installed you need to install drivers for laptop by yourself.


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