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Recovering your system
If your operating system files are lost or damaged, the recovery process will restore your system's original factory default settings. Your Acer Veriton series computer includes a One Touch Recovery button, a feature that makes restoring your system quick and easy.
One Touch Recovery works from a hidden 2 GB partition on your hard drive that contains all the information required to restore your system.
There are two ways to initate recovery. If your computer is not equipped with the (optional) One Touch Recover button, you can press Alt + F10 after the BIOS finishes running the Power On Self Test (POST).
Warning: Initiating the recovery operation while the operating system is running will result in abnormal shutdown and may make your current OS unstable or unusable.
After the POST runs, you have only 1.5 seconds to press Alt + F10. Follow all onscreen instructions.
You can also follow the steps below:
1Locate the (optional) One touch recovery button. See the image on page 12.
