On 17/04/2012 9:45 AM, Wolf K wrote:
On 17/04/2012 8:40 AM, dani wrote:
Hello,

I have a bit of a problem! I purchased an Acer 5250-BZ853 last year,
in October
(I remember because it was my birthday), and it's been working fine
aside from
a
few minor mishaps. But then yesterday, it all went to hell.

[snip tale of woe]

I'm just at a loss. I'd really like to get my files off. My plan was that
apparently the update did something, so I'd use Ubuntu to get my files
off and
then reformat it to factory settings. Now I can't even get as far as
logging
in/installing Ubuntu!

Help, please?

Acer has a recovery/repair partition on all its machines. I would try
using that first. See if you can find help on how to boot into that
partition. I'd tell you how if I knew, but I've converted our Acer
laptop to a Linux machine, which wiped out the recovery partition.

The problem with using the recovery partition is that it will reset the
boot partition back to factory fresh reinstall, meaning all of the
user's data will be erased.

Yousuf Khan