I accidentally clean installed my acer nitro 5 now all the stuff thats built with the pc is gone.

FiloWrld
FiloWrld Member Posts: 3 New User
 I accidentally clean installed my acer nitro 5 now all the stuff thats built with the pc is gone and I want to recover it because when I tried to reset my pc to factory settings its still didnt give me the original windows. Is there away I could recover that overwritten windows because when i checked its not there anymore. 

usually when I reset my pc to factory settings it supposed give me all of the programs that was built for the gaming pc and it shows the original background wallpaper but now its just showing me the blue windows wallpaper and all of the programs are gone.  And this image doesnt show anymore.

and I also want my start up repair fixed because it keeps saying couldnt repair I have watch alot of tutorials on youtube but no to avail 

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  • deep9k
    deep9k Member Posts: 2 New User
    i also have same problem. I dont get dtsx ultra after reset. iam installling it from playstore but it shows error only while installing
  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder
    edited August 2021
    1. Reset of windows restores factory settings, if your system still has the manufacturer recovery partition.
    2. Reinstall of windows (clean) wipes everything off the disk.
    3. Reset post clean install will only get back to the windows of clean install, not that of manufacturer.

    Your only option is to use any data recovery tool on your disk, but, the chances of it retrieving data is low since windows could have overwritten the sectors where data was stored making their recovery impossible. You only have a chance of recovering data that was only wiped but no data written over that.

    My recommendation as a standard:
    Make atleast two partitions on your disk where you install windows - first one around 120 GB and second one for the rest.
    If the disk is 120 or smaller, leave it for windows as a whole, and install another hard disk.
    Map all the folders within your "my documents" to the second partition/disk.
    This way when you wipe/reset/clean install, your data will still be preserved (and you only need to remap on the new windows).

    This is what I have been doing during XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 10 (both OS upgrades and laptop upgrades (as simple as moving my data disk to the new laptop)).

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  • FiloWrld
    FiloWrld Member Posts: 3 New User
    sri369 said:
    1. Reset of windows restores factory settings, if your system still has the manufacturer recovery partition.
    2. Reinstall of windows (clean) wipes everything off the disk.
    3. Reset post clean install will only get back to the windows of clean install, not that of manufacturer.

    Your only option is to use any data recovery tool on your disk, but, the chances of it retrieving data is low since windows could have overwritten the sectors where data was stored making their recovery impossible. You only have a chance of recovering data that was only wiped but no data written over that.

    My recommendation as a standard:
    Make atleast two partitions on your disk where you install windows - first one around 120 GB and second one for the rest.
    If the disk is 120 or smaller, leave it for windows as a whole, and install another hard disk.
    Map all the folders within your "my documents" to the second partition/disk.
    This way when you wipe/reset/clean install, your data will still be preserved (and you only need to remap on the new windows).

    This is what I have been doing during XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 10 (both OS upgrades and laptop upgrades (as simple as moving my data disk to the new laptop)).

    Unfortunately the manufacturer partition is gone thats why im asking to recover it too. 
  • sri369
    sri369 ACE Posts: 2,774 Pathfinder
    FiloWrld said:
    Unfortunately the manufacturer partition is gone thats why im asking to recover it too. 
    A partition gone is gone forever, unless you are an expert in recovery and use some professional data recovery tools. Alternately, check with Acer and they can send you a factory OS USB (i think that's a paid option there). But if you use it, it will reset the system to factory and all your data will anyways be gone.

    Or do as i did - simply install OS fresh, and install Acer software from Acer site.
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