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   Posted by: pressdriver
   Member

   Hi all

   i need help i am have problems with my aspire 8920G and i need the 3 recovery disc burnt so i can reboot my machine
   i did not do this when i bought the laptop
   i bought the laptop in spain where i live i was told i could get the english back up discs from acer but they will not send me a english set of disc's as the machine is spainish i will pay for all cost's
   for posting and the cost of the disc's and for your time i have rbooted with toshiba disc to get this up and running so no eRecoverey, no acer at all
   i have been trying for 3 months to sort this out so if you can help me out you would keep the wife from moaning at me that my laptop was a waste of money
   look forward to your reply
   pressdriver

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Posted by: Starnamer
   Member

   If you have a Vista installation DVD, the key on the label on the underside of the machine should let you install the operating system (I assume this is what you mean by booting with the Toshiba disk). Assuming the hard disk wasn't trashed, the recover partition should be OK, and should be left (I think it also conatins some diagnostics) but can't be used until you have made the recover disks; if it's gone, then don't worry about it - in 20 years working in IT, I've hardly ever booted a machine with it's recovery partition! In fact, if the partition structure is OK, I'd leave it as is and just install Vista into the C: partition.

   Once you have Vista installed, you then need any missing device drivers and the Acer software.

   Since you are obviously connected to the Internet (or you wouldn't be able to post), you can open the Acer web site, go to the Server & Support page and select your model (Notebook->Aspire->8920G). You can then download all the Acer specific drivers and applications. It's quite a lot to download and install (roughly 400Mb in about 25 files), but probably the easiest way to get everything. Don't bother with things you don't need (e.g. the video drivers for alternate sub-models).

   BTW, I'd recommend getting the Fingerprint driver for the 8930G (version 6.2.39) instead of the 8920G version (6.0.00.08) as it works with IE8 while the older one doesn't. Just select 8930G as the model and select it from the list.

   Good luck.

   Posted 2 years ago #

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