Jephree, Acer computers have a hidden partition on the HDD which stores the default settings and also a restore setting. I learnt this last year when I had to use this method and it reloaded a heap of documents and pictures that I'd accidentally deleted about six months earlier.

I reinstalled the driver for the NVIDIA card I installed last year. Will there be others to install? There are some drivers listed on one of the Acer disks but I didn't reinstall any of them.