You should then be able to open up a command prompt and navigate to the PQSERVICE drive.Ĩ. Reboot the computer and login with an “administrator” level account.ħ. PQSERVICE being edited by PTEDIT32Ĭhange the type to “07″ (Installable File System NTFS, HPFS) and “Save Changes”.Ħ. It is likely to be 12 or another custom value and is likely to be reasonably small in comparison to the other normal partitions – see the example below from a working factory default Acer. Identify the PQSERVICE partition by its type or size.
#PTEDIT32 DOWNLOAD ARCHIVE#
Extract PTEDIT32.EXE from the zip archive and run it.ĥ.
#PTEDIT32 DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD#
Download ParTEDIT32.ZIP (registration required for download).Ĥ. Log into Windows with an “administrator” level account.ģ. As long as the PQSERVICE partition is there or you can get your hands on a couple of Acer service files for your model, then you can remake the special Acer MBR. The special Acer Master Boot Record (MBR) has become corrupt or has been overwritten with an non Acer MBR. Ironic that NTFS is a more desirable disk format to use but Acer won’t support this in their systems!įIX: Restore your system from the recovery CD/DVD media.Ĥ. Acer D2D recovery won’t be available if you perform this conversion.
You have converted the FAT32 partition on the hard drives into NTFS. You will need to restore from the Acer Recovery CD/DVD.ģ.
If the disk drive is a replacement drive then you won’t have this partition.įIX: Unless you have previously imaged the PQSERVICE partition it will not be possible to use D2D recovery. The Acer hidden recovery partition (PQSERVICE) has been removed or damaged. D2D Recovery is “Disabled” in the BIOS (Main menu).įIX: Enabled it and try pressing ALT+F10 again as the computer boots.Ģ. Sometimes this won’t work and there can be a number of reasons.ġ. Many Acer systems come with the ability to press ALT+F10 to kick off the Acer Recovery applications from a special hidden recovery partition.
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