Desktops & All-In-Ones

[veronica0406]

Restore using the CD's takes me just under 3 hours start to finish.  Granted, it is a bit of a pain to sit and load 6 discs, but it works.  I too tried the USB route, by creating the system restore to a USB drive.  I figured that had to be quicker and easier.  However, that restore took over 6 hours and only made it to 50%.  I had to abort it and use the discs anyway.  

My last computer was an HP laptop.  It did not ship with restore discs, but had a built in restore partition that worked flawlessly every time.  Acer could take some notes from HP, and do something about their horrid restore process.  

I know you don't want to order the discs, but I am certainly glad I have mine!

[frugal_economy]

It managed to factory reset after like 8 hours!

Sad state how customers need to take care of each other to get their product to work.

So I am currently updating to 8.1

Here's what I did:

I updated all the windows system updates one at a time. You're notice a lot of them have the same beginning name. I went for the earliest date and slowly went down the list.

This time around there were no failures in the update.

After I updated my windows system files I updated the bios technical support provided me.

Then I started updating to 8.1

[veronica0406]

Wow, 8 hours?  Who has time for that?  I guess it will be an overnight operation if I decide to go by USB.

I am glad you were able to get your system up and running, and updated to 8.1.  I hope to tackle that project soon.  For now, I am content with no Windows updates.  For now...

Here is hoping that you have no more problems.  

Veronica