The other day, I was about to
update my blog when suddenly I cannot connect to any wireless networks - hone
and office, which made me decide to
conduct system restore but is doesn’t continue so I cancelled. Unfortuantely,
upon cancellation, the entire system seem to crash. When I tried to restart my
computer, it did not continue booting and the operating system likely to crash
too.
Until the following day, I made
some research at the office on how to restore the operating system without
using installation disk (my netbook don’t have any CD driver). Until I found
about the Acer eRecovery Management –this will allow you to reinstall Operating
system on Acer laptops and netbooks without using any installation disk because
the OS is already pre-installed in the computer.
Pressing Alt+F10, repeatedly just
before the windows starts will redirect you to Acer eRecovery Management which allows you to choose three (3) options:
Completely Restore System
to Factory Defaults, which
will completely erase your computer and reinstall Windows returning it to the
same state it was when you turned your computer on for the first time.
Restore Operating System
and Retain User Data, which
is essentially the same process but the information stored in your user account
folder will be saved. Acer still recommends backing up all other data if
you choose to use this option.
Reinstall
Drivers or Applications, allows you to
reinstall any application or driver that you may be having problems with that
came installed on your computer without reinstalling Windows completely.
Source: Acer Website
I tried to execute the 2nd
option hoping to save all the files on my computer but it failed so I resorted
to the first option. All of my files were deleted including photo collections
that are posted and will be posted in my other blog, work-related documents, songs
and movie collections and others.
Things I learned about this?
First, do not perform any task if
you are not sure how it will be executed properly.
Second, always keep a back-up of
all important files. I think I have to include in my Christmas wish-list a
removable storage device, 500GB will do.
Any donor/s? hehehe