Issues with Acer Recovery Discs

mcguirknba

Hello everybody,

 

My windows 8  stopped working last weekend. Whenever I turnd on my PC it would just keep spining in the screen where it says "Acer explore beyond limits".

 

I tried to start the Acer erecovery but it would just be stuck in the "Please Wait" screen".

 

I downloaded the Ubuntu DVD and booted from that, which let me access my data and back it up. I then purchased the Recovery DVD's from the Acer website and followed the instructions. I kept pressing F12 which then let me either boot from the harddrive or the DVD drive. When I choose the DVD drive, in which I have the system disc just like the instructions tell me, it is again stuck for about 10 - 15min in the "Acer explore beyond limits" screen with the spinning round thing on the buttom. After a while the screen just turns black.

 

Is there anything wrong the DVDs Acer sent me? I am able to boot with a Ubuntu DVD so my hard drive and computer should be fine. Should I use Dariks boot n nuke to clean my hard drive and then try the sytem disc again?

 

Any help yould be appreciated!

 

Thanks!

billsey

I don't know which model you have, but sometimes external DVD drives don't have enough power to read the disks, but do have enough power to 'see' the disks. If you are on a desktop with an internal drive that wouldn't be it, of course.

 

Can you boot into safe mode or the BIOS? it might be a matter of repairing the boot rather than a full reinstall.