How to Repair the Acer D2D Recovery Quickly and Easily

Before you ever try to do any kind of repairs to your systems in your computer, you should always make a back up. Even professionals do this; it is simply good practice. Having said that, let's discuss the Acer D2D (disk to disk) recovery and how to repair it quickly and easily if yours is no longer functioning.

Many times, the reason the D2D is not working is that it is no longer enabled in the BIOS menu. Go to BIOS and make sure D2D is enabled. As you reboot your computer, press alt+F10 and see if that did the trick.

If your D2D is already enabled, or if enabling it in the BIOS didn't help matters any, there are some other ideas on how to repair the Acer D2D recover quickly and easily. Use your CD/DVD to restore your computer. You will need to do this if PQService has been damaged or is missing for some reason. This is another very common reason for the malfunction of the Acer D2D recovery.

Remake the Master Boot Record (MBR) for your Acer. A damaged MBR is oftentimes the reason your Acer D2D recovery isn't working. Here is how you do it:

1. Disable D2D in the BIOS and save and exit.
2. Log into Windows as an administrator.
3. DownloadParTEDIT32.zip
4. Extract PTEDIT32.exe from the zip file and run it.
5. Find the PQSERVICE partition and change its type to "07"
6. Save your changes and reboot.
7. Login again as an administrator.
8. Go to the PQSERVICE drive.
9. Enter this command at the prompt: mbrwrdos.exe install rtmbr.bin
10. Close the command prompt and reboot your computer.
11. Go back and enable the D2D in your BIOS again.

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