Do I need to say that very often laptop owners have to perform a factory reset as one of the most extreme measures to restore the device's performance? Most often, the laptop manufacturer supplies it with a preinstalled operating system and special proprietary utilities that allow you to perform all the necessary rollback actions. Next, it is proposed to figure out how to reset an Acer laptop to factory settings.
By and large, it doesn't matter what laptop model you have, because in most cases all the operations performed will be exactly the same. Two main methods can be proposed. As the first situation, we will consider the rollback of parameters for models with pre-installed Windows OS, as the second situation, we will take the cases whenthe operating system may have been reinstalled or upgraded (for example, when moving from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10, or when replacing a hard drive).
How to reset an Acer laptop to factory settings using a proprietary utility?
As the first and easiest way to roll back a laptop, if the operating system installed on it somehow boots (even in safe mode), you can suggest using a special environment built by the manufacturer into the device software shell called Acer eRecovery Management.
Since the application shortcut shortcut is created in the start menu of the operating system itself at the factory installation stage, the problem of how to reset an Acer laptop to factory settings is solved elementarily.
Just find this applet among the installed programs in the Start menu, and after starting it, use the recovery section presented on the left side of the main window, and then select your preferred rollback option (either with or without saving data), then just press the confirmation buttons for the operations performed. However, in this case, it is worth considering that if there are viruses in the system, the choice of recovery with saving user files and programs is inappropriate, since malware may not be removed, and after a rollback it will continue its destructive activity.
How to resetsettings if the laptop does not boot: actions in the BIOS
But very often you can find situations when the operating system does not start at all under any pretext. In this case, you can use some BIOS settings. Speaking about how to reset an Acer laptop to factory settings via BIOS, this should not be taken literally. In the primary system itself, you can only activate a special option responsible for rollback (no more).
When you turn on the laptop, press the Del key, and after entering the BIOS in the main section (Main), find the D2D Recovery item (it activates the use of the recovery environment even without the mandatory start of the OS). If it is set to Disabled, switch to Enabled, then exit the interface while saving the settings (F10 + Y).
Recovery after setting BIOS settings
Now you are very close to getting an answer to your questions about how to reset your Acer laptop to factory settings. The keyboard shortcut that allows you to launch the above environment is the same for all models - "Image" + F10.
After that, the same utility that was described above will start, but only, if I may say so, in a DOS-like mode, but with a graphical interface. You will have to choose a recovery method and wait for all operations to complete.
Note: if this is the first time a reset is performed, it may well bepassword requested. To access the functionality, you need to enter a standard code consisting of six zeros.
How to reset in Windows 10: standard scheme
We can assume that you upgraded to Windows 10 or installed it when you replaced your hard drive. In these cases, of course, there will be no recovery environment on the disk.
To rollback to the "top ten" you can use the special reset mode, which can be activated through the appropriate section in the options menu.
Reset at startup from removable media
Resetting an Acer laptop in Windows tenth modification can also be done by rebooting while holding down the Shift key (this is equivalent to launching special start options), and then through the recovery section and several additional menus to get to the reset point.
Similar operations can be performed when starting from a flash drive with the installation distribution "dozens", after selecting the main language and regional settings, use the restore link located in the lower left corner, and then perform standard menu navigation to the desired item.
Reset with data retention: additional technique
Finally, let's take a quick look at how to reset an Acer laptop to factory settings while keeping files and programs in a working "top ten". You can do it, no matter what anyone says! To do this, you first need to create a bootable USB flash drive using eitherimage file and a program like Rufus, or a Microsoft application called Media Creation Tool.
After connecting the media to the USB port, expand its contents and simply run the Setup.exe installer file. At one of the stages, you will be asked to choose a recovery method, in which you can just specify the preservation of all user data and installed applications.
Note: when the reboot starts, the USB flash drive must be removed from the port so that it does not accidentally start from it, since usually such drives are placed first in the boot device queue in the BIOS automatically.
