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Acer disk to disk recovery

Hello, all, I am curious about how Acer D2D recovery works. There is a hidden partion (13Gbs size) that contains the image of the Vista Business OS, and this image is used for recovery purpose. When I have Vista installed, and I enable D2D recovery in Windows, I am able to start this recovery during POST with ALT+F10.

However, If I install WindowsXP on C (with formating C partition), this option is no longer available. Why is this so? The hidden partition still contains the image (it is untouched). If I recover Vista from the DVD, then ALT+F10 works.

This makes me think that there is some software on C partition that needs to be available so D2D recovery works, which is quite nonsense, of you ask me. What is your knowledge about this?

Thanks,
Goran

PUNKY

Please see the link:
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/art-partition-recovery.htm

Priest04

ASKER

How does this link corresponds to my question? if you wante to say that MBR is recreated with no traces in it about the hidden partition, then is there a way I ran rebuild it to point to the hidden partition, while still allowing XP to boot, as Vista is behaving?

What does ALT+F10 do, I thought it is realted to BIOS, not the mbr?

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Priest04

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Well, actually, this link was more helpful.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/archive/index.php/t-84051.html

I found the solution last night, but I forgot to post. Working nicely. My initial reaction was to post here, since I was very busy with other stuff, but the solution to problem was quite easy to find.

thanks for trying to help.

Goran