how to find a hidden OS image

[pspec]

Hi

I have the acer aspire 6530g around 1 week old and its running or was running vista.

I thought I would go back to factory default so I used the alt f10 restore function.

Restarted the laptop and when I saw the first screen I pressed alt f10

The screen went black with a flashing dash in the top left

hand corner and that's all it did.

Then each time I turned it on I only got the back screen

I then manage to get the options up and running using a disc from another acer and when I tried to load the default image it gave me a path not found error.

This in turn let me restart the laptop. Great!!!!!!!

Now if I can find the correct root to the default image it should work.

I went in to disc management

It's got 3 partitions

First one is unlabeled and is 10gb capacity and 10gb free
Second one acer (c: 111.44gb capacity and 69.38 free
Third one data(d: 111.44gb capacity and 111.06 free

So the second has 42.06 used and as I have installed 1 to 2 gb of software I would think the default image would be some where on that one.


Does anyone know how I can find it and how to find the file path

Thanks

 

[-RockMan-]

The only thing I can think of is "TRY" to get back into vista and start looking into each of the partitions for windows hidden installations files or folders.

 

[KSoD]

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