My Aspire 5253-BZ893 crashed. I tried Alt - F10 recovery through secret partition, it goes to 60% Restoring and then stop with error message, "Restor Failed - Error Code=0x45d (WIMApplyImage cannot apply image: The request could not be performed because of an I/O error). Tried eRecovery media disks that I made when I bought the computer. Selected "Restore system with backup files: does 100%backup but fails on restoring with error "Restore failed-Error code=0x3 (WIMSetReferenceFile cannot set reference file)." Tried installing Windows 7 from installation disk with repair option but got a message that "starup repair cannot repair automatically". Tried software installation , went all the way to installing updates and still got an error, "setup cannot continue due to a corrupted installation file". So at this time, I have tried eRecovery ALT-F10, eRecovery Media, Windows installation and nothing worked....
So what is wrong.. Thanks