Notebooks & Netbooks

[Thiverge]

Yeah, two months. Unfortunately, I am not. I believe I bought this computer in Jan 2013.

[JackE]

I'm gonna guess the update somehow affected your HDD, not the SSD. The SSD should have the guts of the Win8 operating system in order to start. At the moment I can't think of anything else to try except to pull the HDD to see if you at least can get the system to boot from the SSD alone. Then we can proceed from there if it does boot. Unfortunately, pulling the HDD seems like a chore for the 581T  according to this link.

http://community.acer.com/t5/Ultra-Thin/M5-581T-6807/td-p/4003

Jack E/NJ