Acer Aspire 3100 Aspire 3100 - 5100 - 5110 Service Guide - Page 31

Acer eRecovery Management Acer eRecovery Management is a powerful utility with the need for recovery disks provided by the manufacturer. The Acer eRecovery Management utility occupies space in a hidden partition on the system's HDD. Be default, user-created backups are stored on D:\ drive. Acer eRecovery Management provides: • Password protection • Recovery of applications and drives • Image or data backup: • Backup to HDD (set recovery point) • Backup to CD or DVD • Image/data recovery tools: • Recovery from a hidden partition (factory defaults) • Recovery from the HDD (most recent user-defined recovery point) • Recovery from CD or DVD NOTE: If the computer did not come with a Recove"rAycCeDr eoRreScoysvteermy MCDan, apgleeamsenuts"eoAncperageRe ecovery Man7a4gementA'sc"eSrySsytsetemmbaUcskeur'ps tGouoidpetical disk" feature to burn a backup image to CD or DVD. To ensure the best results when recovering the system using a CD or Acer eRecovery Management, detach all peripherals (except external Acer ODD, if equipped), including the Acer ezDock. Note: 22 Chapter 1