Acer Aspire 1350

Vinylpro · Post by **Vinylpro** » Sun May 17, 2009 8:50 am

Hi everyone. I'm trying to sort out my parents laptop. It being just a few years old and incredibly full up, my dad wants to wipe it clean and start again. I can seem to find anywhere on there how to do so. Does anyone have any idea's how to do this. The laptop came with no recovery disks and i believe windows is pre-installed.

Thanks

mikew1972 · Post by **mikew1972** » Sun May 17, 2009 9:07 am

There is a facility on most ACER laptops to burn your own recovery disks.
Once you are sure you have done this wipe the laptop, put the recovery DVD / CD in and switch it on and follow the instructions.

diy-stu · Post by **diy-stu** » Sun May 17, 2009 9:13 am

You really need a windows disc to do a proper cleanup, as if you insert in the CD and reboot it should boot from the disc and give you the option to wipe the machine and reinstall.

If you are unable to get your hands on a windows disc (from a friend, tinternet) etc then you could do the following to try and cleanup the machine.

1. Remove any applications that are not used
2. Clean up the registry, use something llike CCleaner: http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/
3. Use something like this (http://download.cnet.com/System-TuneUp/ ... ?tag=mncol) to cleanup the remainder of your machine, it removes invalid entries, junk files etc and should create plenty of space.

If you are doing a full wipe make sure you copy all your saved data to an external drive of DVD/CD

Vinylpro · Post by **Vinylpro** » Sun May 17, 2009 9:36 am

Ok, i'll give that a go. The only possible "recovery" thing on there is a program that will take it back 2 weeks or so. I'll try the cleaner first. I've done this before on our old laptop. I found a program, it wiped the whole computer and started up as normal but as if it where brand new, no disks etc.

diy-stu · Post by **diy-stu** » Sun May 17, 2009 9:58 am

Any problems then just shout (or scream)

Vinylpro · Post by **Vinylpro** » Sun May 17, 2009 2:28 pm

Well i done CCleaner and it got rid of about 154MB but then i found that if i lowered the amount of space the computer wants to use for resote points then it frees up some more. I suppose that'll have to do until they can get a new one.

gas4you · Post by **gas4you** » Sun May 17, 2009 5:49 pm

Does Acer not have a recovery partition built in that is accessed via F10 or similar whilst the BIOS screen is visible?

Vinylpro · Post by **Vinylpro** » Sun May 17, 2009 6:21 pm

Well the machine has a 20GB hard drive. It has a 10GB "C" and a 10GB "D". C seems to be for main use and D seems to be storage only. I've not yet pressed F12 yet but when i get a spare few hours i'll flick to it. So can it be cleared through that?

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:57 pm

I know it is a bit late but most Acers come with a 'revert to factory settings' facility installed on a secret partition.

At Bootup hold down the Ctrl + Alt keys and keep pressing the F10 key.

dave