Hello,
I gave my Acer Netbook to my Son over the weekend so that he could reinstall everything again because I was having some issues and it was running like a snail. However, he rang me yesterday and said there is either no recovery or it has been deleted or its corrupt.
This is what he said that he has done. It is over my head and I don't understand but he said maybe the community will. This is what he said below.
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MS-DOS
DISKPART
List Volume
Looking through DiskPart there should be at least 4 partitions and there is only 3 of therefore the recovery partition is missing. How this has happened I do not know because my fathers knowledge of computers isn't that wonderful. For him to delete a hidden partition which can only be deleted via DiskPart because it is a hidden partition is a complete mystery.
Volume 0 - C------------NTFS-------------------BOOT
Volume 1 - RECOVERY NTFS-------------------HIDDEN (Missing)*
Volume 2 - --------------FAT32------------------SYSTEM
Volume 3 - SYSTEM RECOVERY-----------------SYSTEM
Is there Recovery Media that I can buy and reinstalled the OS. Other than that what I could do is run Clean in DiskPart and clear the HDD and I have a licenced Windows 7 Ultimate 86 and 64 bit. I could create a bootable USB and run a clean install. But I would need to download all the drivers beforehand for the netbook.
* The Recovery Drive partition is missing therefore, there is no viable way of recovering the Netbook back to factory settings because it no longer exists. Therefor the only way to recover or reinstall the OS is for me to either get hold of a recovery media or I reinstall a clean install of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 for which I have licenced disc that I could install. But I would require all the drivers beforehand otherwise I would not be able to reinstate the Netbook back to a state of normality.
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