restore problem

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Mr. Oldies

Hi all

I am a partially blind person and am trying vista as a test (for me
and any other friends who are blind or partially blind.) I know there
is not screen reader for vista yet, but since I have enough sight to see
it and work with it without one I thought I would (for now) give it a
look at.

Now I want to restore this pc back before I installed vista. I
tried my ghost image and it gave me a message and would not work (sorry
forgot what message said) and I tried the restore disks that came with
the pc and they would not work. I am guess it is a bootloader problem.
What do I need to do to get it back to normal.

This is an Acer Aspire T135 and has 3 partitions. One for
restoreing the system, the other is a C partition and a D partition.
Apparently when I got this machine they made it this way.

Any help would be appreciated so if I have this problem I can get it
back up and if anyone else who tries vista has this problem I can tell
them what to do

thanks in advance
 
The Acer restore disk should have a volatile restore (format and reinstall)
but you would need to boot from the restore disk and not run it in an
operating system environment that will lock the drive. You mentioned
bootloader, so try booting with the restore disk, if it doesn't boot you
will need to change the boot order in your CMOS in your BIOS. Unfortunately
I don't recall Acer letting you into the BIOS settings by tapping the delete
key but maybe they changed this but if you email Acer, they will tell you
how to enter the bios. But changing boot order is usually a basic CMOS
adjustment. You may need a sighted person to help you with BIOS.
 
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