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    Acer Aspire V3 need to start recovery disk process, but BIOS greyed out

    Hello, I have an Acer Aspire V3 (772G-9643 model) laptop that Acer sent me the recovery disks for. The first two steps they listed on the included sheet was to insert the disc labeled "System Disk" and then reboot and press F12 to get in the boot menu. When F12 didn't work for me, I went into...
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    Recovering files from failing laptop HDD using USB enclosure (drive detected, but issues accessing files)

    Windows 8.1/Acer Aspire V3/Western Digital laptop HDD Background: I recently had the following symptoms of what I believe is a failing HDD, with my laptop: incredibly slow in starting up; disk overloaded 100% in Task Manager constantly; opening a program or doing anything beyond staying on the...