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What is the password to format an ACER pc

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Name: mawiiiz
Date: April 26, 2009 at 11:36:02 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Product: Acer / ?
Subcategory: Software Problems
Comment:

Hi there,

I want to format my acer pc because its infected with virus. But when I clic on alt F10, it asks me for a password and I don t remerber it. I went into acer empowering technology, in security to reset my password but it asks me for the previous one, which I don t remerber. Help please, how can I format it without the password Thanks



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Response Number 1
Name: XpUser
Date: April 26, 2009 at 11:45:29 Pacific
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If yoiu are the rightful owner of this computer, call Acer. They will be happy to help you out. If you are NOT the rightful owner, we cannot help you.

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 2
Name: lurkswithin
Date: April 26, 2009 at 13:41:23 Pacific
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Excellent answer

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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser
Date: April 26, 2009 at 14:14:56 Pacific
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Thanks I guess the answer I gave is consistent with what we have discussed in The Lounge not too long ago (didn't Othehill bought it up?).

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 4
Name: lurkswithin
Date: April 26, 2009 at 20:49:03 Pacific
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Him and derbys dad were they ones to start the post I believe. It is good to see the forums work the way they should!

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Response Number 5
Name: mawiiiz
Date: April 27, 2009 at 06:09:18 Pacific
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Thank you guys for your anwsers. Finally, I proccessed differently. I chose the option to restore my computer with cd or dvd, so I did not need to provide my password. But it s good to know that since I am the computer's owner, ACER"client care can help out. I heard that they charge money to reset the password...


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Response Number 6
Name: abiapakandu
Date: April 28, 2009 at 07:53:49 Pacific
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Response Number 7
Name: XpUser
Date: April 28, 2009 at 08:00:44 Pacific
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... almost at no price

How so?

i_Xp/VistaUser


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Response Number 8
Name: trvlr
Date: May 1, 2009 at 06:56:27 Pacific
Reply:

Acer (laptops especially) asking for a password and refusing whatever you offer is a fairly common problem... Having had just that issue a few months ago... we finally to do standard Acer restore (Recovery CD) routine; after first copying all data etc. off the system entirely. The restore routine worked flawlessly... The system in question had been hit by a real nasty that deleted three of the registry keys...; and thus no boot up etc...

And for the future... we made an Acronis (Acronis-11) image of the drive once it was reloaded/tweaked etc. with all the required software etc. that had been added in on top of the Acer provided installation. Much easier in future to to do a restore/rebuild to a system already setup (more or les) as one wishes; rather than have to go a two stage path?

And all data is regularly copied off the system...


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