Aspire V3 471g Windows 8 OEM Recovery

Hi.

can someone help me?

I just bought a acer aspire v3 471g windows 8 single language oem notebook. A friend of mine managed to screw up my new laptop. I was not able to create back factory default using a 16gb flash drive.

I was attempting to restore my laptop to its out-of-the-box factory settings.

The problem is while attempting to create a backup first hand, the erecovery management wont allow me because it says the hard drive configuration was not set. Recovery Aborted/

I got frustrated.

I entered BIOS chose LEGACY BIOS and enable D2D Recovery. In order to use Alt+F10 feature because I dont have a backup image or flash drive.

While trying to use alt+F10 "It says cannot find bootable device." Im aware I have a 15gb oem push button reset partition. Why it ss not working??????

It seems the recovery partition is locked... not configured or something.

I just want to restore it to its factory settings....... tnx

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Allan_Rozario

Hi darkveg,

Refer the article on reseting the acer latop to factory setting. Hope this helps!

darkveg

Tnx for the reply pal,

The problem is when I opened the image of the recovery partition I cant find aimdrs.dat or the mbrwrwin.exe and rtmbr.bin. Theres no password.

Sometime ago I used the windows 8 "Reset PC Settings" from boot but it says the windows partition cannot be accessed. It seems its locked or something.

I used R-Drive Image Software to create an image of the recovery partition.

A folder named RecoveryImage contains a 'OEM folder and install.wim file (12.9gb).e

other information:

It seems I cant even reformat this unit. Cant do dual booting. The BIOS is in UEFI and the D2D Push Button can only b seen if its in Legacy Bios.

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firefoot007

hi darkveg

i am also going through the same problem. i have push button reset partition intact but cant restore nor make backup through acer recovery and alt+f10 does not work for me.