Acer Erecovery not working after upgrading to windows 7 from XP

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its4taylor

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#69117 3-Oct-2010 09:24

Hi, i have a acer aspire one mini net book and i installed windows 7 ultimate over XP and it works great, but the programs i need to use aren't compatible with windows 7, i want to restore it back to factory windows XP with the D2D recovery (e recovery) but the f10/alt f10 doesn't work. How can i fix this?

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#387311 3-Oct-2010 09:30

What programs are not working? Do you have the latest versions of these programs?

its4taylor

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#387312 3-Oct-2010 09:34

well they are programs that arent well known.. Its a USB-AV capture device which the program that comes with it is the latest, but when i click record to record the AV video, it freezes and says "MultiViewer has stopped responding. Close Program?

And i need that program to work, and im happy to restore to XP, but the acer erecovery program doesnt load when i hit alt f10/f10 in the boot process. it just ignores the keys and boots into WIN7

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#387318 3-Oct-2010 09:43

How many partitions are on the laptop now? Did you install windows 7 over both the XP and acer recovery partitions?

its4taylor

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#387333 3-Oct-2010 10:28

rscole86: How many partitions are on the laptop now? Did you install windows 7 over both the XP and acer recovery partitions?

I kept the acer hidden partition, there are 2 partitions, I only installed over XP

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#388503 5-Oct-2010 21:55

i had this trouble also when upgrading to windows 7.
after searching online for all the latest versions of my programs and downloading drivers from the manufacturers website, i got it all going.
im sure your program would have a patch for windows 7?

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#388584 6-Oct-2010 07:22

After hours trying to fix it, i got it going and then somehow stuffed it up, so i just said stuff it, and i wiped the whole HDD including hidden partition, and re-installed win7. I got the program i wanted to work to work, so its not a problem anymore. Thanks for your help guys