Acer eRecovery Management Acer eRecovery Management is a powerful utility with the need for recovery disks provided by the manufacturer. The Acer eRecovery Management utility occupies space in a hidden partition on the system’s HDD. User-created backups are stored on D:\ drive. Acer eRecovery Management provides: T T T
Password protection Recovery of applications and drives Image or data backup: • Backup to HDD (set recovery point) • Backup to CD or DVD
T
Image or data recovery tools: • Recovery from a hidden partition (factory defaults) • Recovery from the HDD (most recent user-defined recovery point) • Recovery from CD or DVD
NOTE: If the computer did not come with a Recovery CD or System CD, please use Acer eRecovery Management’s “System backup to optical disk” feature to burn a backup image to CD or DVD. To ensure the best results when recovering the system using a CD or Acer eRecovery Management, detach all peripherals (except external Acer ODD, if equipped), including the Acer ezDock.
Chapter 1
23
