Computer help forum: PQSERVICE

Hold down the Windows key and press the letter R. Type in MSCONFIG and press enter. Click the Startup tab. There you'll see a list of things getting started when you boot up. You can uncheck anything there except your antivirus program, but look for something in the list that might be trying to access an I: drive. If it isn't obvious, you'll need to do some trial and error.

Good luck.

have done something to unhide the PQSERVICE partition that ACER uses for its eRecovery recovery partition.

Have you been playing with a partition editor or something of that nature?

using glary utilities or some registry cleaner or something like that?

PQSERVICE partition type is EISA type (type 12 in Ptedit32). You can download PTEDIT32.exe here http://www.pendriveapps.com/partition-table-editor-ptedit/ and run it to see what the PQSERVICE partition type is set to. Change it to 12 but only for the PQSERVICE partition. That should put things back on track.

Normally when the partition becomes visible (like you can see it in windows explorer or My Computer) it can't be accessed via the keyboard for recovery purposes.

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Program started at: 12/13/2012 07:42:53 PM in x86 mode.
Windows Version: Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic Service Pack 2

Checking for Windows services to stop:

* No malware services found to stop.

Checking for processes to terminate:

* C:\Users\Howard\AppData\Roaming\DefaultTab\DefaultTab\DTUpdate.exe (PID: 1472) [UP-HEUR]

1 proccess terminated!

Checking Registry for malware related settings:

* No issues found in the Registry.

Resetting .EXE, .COM, & .BAT associations in the Windows Registry.

Performing miscellaneous checks:

* No issues found.

Checking Windows Service Integrity:

* No issues found.

Searching for Missing Digital Signatures:

* No issues found.

Checking HOSTS File:

* HOSTS file entries found:

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

Program finished at: 12/13/2012 07:43:13 PM
Execution time: 0 hours(s), 0 minute(s), and 19 seconds(s)