Apr 20 2008
Restore Acer Arcade Deluxe and mbr
This guideĀ comes with absolutely no warranty
and is tested on acer aspire 5920g
If you have overwrited your mbr or on the instanton arcade installation you have this error: No avaliable disk space to create XPe partitio, use thi method, or if you like to reinstall acer arcade deluxe instanton or install it in other partition, use this method:
1) copy from pqservice partition in C: (with a gnu/linux live cd or with your preferred method) 2 file:
mbrwrwin.exe and rtmbr2.bin
Boot vista, open promt dos with administrative privileges and:
cd C:\
mbrrwwin.exe install rtmbr2.bin
3) Prepare a partition for instanton, partition is necessary: primary, ntfs, bootable and visible. It is possible to use a partition with id 3 or 4 (1 is pqservice 2 vista partition).
4) install instanton:
cd c:\Acer\IOArcade
setup.exe /partitionid=X
X is the number id of your partition for instanton arcade.
Please leave a comment with your experience with other acer notebook.
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Tags: 5920, acer, acer arcade, acer arcade deluxe, instanton, mbr, xpe

