Accessing Recovery Partition

Discussion in 'Acer Aspire One' started by paulmess7, Feb 4, 2009.

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    paulmess7

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    I installed Windows 7 on my AAO and now I decided I would like to dual boot XP. I want to use the recovery partition to convert it back to original settings, then use partition magic to make a partition to install 7 on.

    BUT, I don't know how to access the recovery partition anymore...

    Alt + f10 doesn't work, how can I access it???
     
    paulmess7, Feb 4, 2009
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    jeremysdad

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    You may have destroyed it...You may have let (instructed) Win7 to format your entire hard drive, in which case your recovery partition is gone. Hate to be the bearer of bad news...You could try to use the recovery discs, but they won't really be using that partition...they are like a stand-alone recovery partition...Call Acer and tell them you caught a nasty virus, see if they'll still send them out for free...
     
    jeremysdad, Feb 4, 2009
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