Chapter 1 31Acer eRecovery ManagementAcer eRecovery Management is a powerful utility with the need for recovery disks provided by themanufacturer. The Acer eRecovery Management utility occupies space in a hidden partition on thesystem’s HDD. Be default, user-created backups are stored on D:\ drive. Acer eRecoveryManagement provides:• Password protection• Recovery of applications and drives• Image or data backup:• Backup to HDD (set recovery point)• Backup to CD or DVD• Image/data recovery tools:• Recovery from a hidden partition (factory defaults)• Recovery from the HDD (most recent user-defined recovery point)• Recovery from CD or DVDNOTE: If the computer did not come with a Recovery CD or System CD, please use Acer eRecoveryManagement’s “System backup to optical disk” feature to burn a backup image to CD or DVD. Toensure the best results when recovering the system using a CD or Acer eRecovery Management,detach all peripherals (except external Acer ODD, if equipped), including the Acer ezDock.
