Aspire E1-570 recovery disck don't work

mzachar · November 2016

Guys,

I have an Acer Aspire E1-570 laptop which was bought with pre-installed Windows 8 OS.

My laptop is about 2 years old and I have orderd Recovery CD/DVDs form Acer to reinstall fresh system.

My problem is that any (out of five) recovery disks does not work. Problem is very strange, because one I boot from recovery disk with BIOS set to Legacy mode, I get the message "This recovery system can only be used on "UEFI" mode", but when I set BIOS to UEFI mode I get similar message that recovery can be done only when BIOS is set to UEFI mode?

Please can anyone advice me what shall I do to finally be able to make use of my recovery disks?

Thanks in advance,

MZachar

IronFly · November 2016

the correct setting is using UEFI, the problem is that you need to completly wipe your HDD prior to use the recovery disks.

http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html
download the .iso file
then use a software to burn CD/DVD or USB flash drive and burn the .iso file
once done, put the CD/DVD/USB on your PC, boot from CD/USB (maybe you need to boot under Legacy/Launch CSM if you have UEFI BIOS)
press F12 at boot and choose CD or USB
at the desktop
select your HDD
right click on your HDD icon and choose delete all partitions and click on yes and then apply
http://www.partitionwizard.com/help/delete-all-partitions.html#howto
then exit partition wizard, boot to BIOS, set UEFI back from Legacy (if you have UEFI BIOS) and boot from the erecovery media.