Acer eRecovery Manager Lost Password Recovery by Britec

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Acer eRecovery Manager Lost Password Recovery by britec Linux CD http://www.slax.org Like many others, the first time that you launch eRecovery on your laptop you have use a password. Then the months the years passed, and you need eRecovery, but now you forgot the password... Note : The method can be very different with your model, but the principle remains the same one, there must be a file which stores your password, and it must be in one of the most recent files since you changed your password. Note 2: Vista compatibility This problem is solved very easily, makes a right click on the partedit32 icon, goes in properties, clicks on the tab compatibility and set the compatibility on winxp or win98. For Vista and Xp add run as an administrator. Method n°1 : 1. Download Partedit32 launch the program and change the type of the partition pqservice from 27 to 7. 2. Restart the computer press F2 on boot to enter the bios, and then disable the option (d2drecovery). 3. Restart and press F8 several times until you reach the Windows recovery menu, choose the option : command prompt. The windows open and now there is a letter for a new drive, x for example. 4. Type "dir" and seek the file "aimdrs.dat". Then type this command at the prompt : "Copy aimdrs.dat C:" 5. Restart your computer normally, open a notepad browse for your file open it and recover your password. Do not forget to restore your partition pqservice in its initial state with partedit32, and to reactivate the D2D recovery option in the bios. Method n°2 : With a Linux boot CD make : 1. Cd /mnt 2. mkdir acer 3. mount - T vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/acer 4. cat /tools/aimdrs.dat Here is your password. Warning : for more recent laptop with SATA disc replace "hda1" with "sda1". http://www.briteccomputers.co.uk

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  1. Brian great video! Curious if this method will work with no Windows O/S ? If I boot with Kali Linux will this work? Cheers!
  2. It doesnt worked on my acer aspire 5720ZG eather. He says that mkdir acervis a wrong command and that it doesnt work. Are u sopposed to use cmd to run this because i cant find the pure text program u are describing in ur video... the sudo methos didnt work eather..
  3. Thanks!!
  4. It did not work with SLAX. I used knoppix 4.0 and finally i did it. I also needed to use the sudo commands. But all I want to say is thx :-)
  5. This one worked for me - THANKS
  6. What is the name of the program to download
  7. I had this problem with a 5920 I bought used with a password on the recovery. All I did was use the option where you can burn a set of restore disks. Booted with the first disk in the drive and it restored as normal. It didn't ask for the password when it made the restore disks and didn't ask for it when it did the restore.
  8. If your Acer is going slow, Uninstall this app!
  9. what about a tablet acer iconia a500
  10. its work!!! a use linux slax, text mode. mount disc and view file by MC (press F3)
  11. Dude, my comp got hacked now. And I couldn't find the manager anymore. Anyway I can download it?
  12. @Britec09 Thank you!
  13. Also, no need to reverse the hidden partition steps to re hide the pqservice partition, cause after the recovery it puts everything back to factory stasus, with it hidden again!
  14. I used meathod 1 and could not find it in the pqservice partition in windows. Tried #2, and it worked. There was no tools directory. The file aimdrs.dat was in acer in sda1. Saw the password and this let me access the eRecovery partion and restore computer. In windows I did a search for all ,dat files and it never showed. What confuses me is why is that file only visable in a Linux environment? It was created on Windows. Anyways, thanks for your help!
  15. Im sorry i cannot find Linux CD on that site anywhere
  16. I NEED HELP DOESNT WORK !
  17. will it work with acer aspire 7540-1284
  18. I agree, worked like a charm, password was exactly where it said it would be. I knew nothing about this stuff and I still managed to figure it out. I used Slax btw to create the Linux bootable CD and as i type my Acer is recovering...thank you so much for the help!!
  19. Dude is there other way
  20. Nive one, Britec09's admin(root) cmd helped too (linxoob)