Notebooks & Netbooks

[Rogmarble]

Have Extensa 4420. Been unable to restore old Vista OS so decided to move up to Win 7 32 bit.

Started the install from DVD but got error message that I could not install on the system partition as it was "reserved" by Acer.

This is half of the HDD.

What is the fix for this ?

[philetus]

Are you sure you were trying to install to the C: partition and not the Recovery partition? The partition you want to install to will be the largest partition.Did you even get to where Windows asks you where to install?

[Rogmarble]

No. Since the Acer recovery software is defective it just got as far as creating a corrupt Registry.

Acer could care less about their defective software and their proprietary "recovery" system not working. I ended up erasing the hard drive and installing non-Acer software. So far performance is faster, Storage space is significantly larger and the system actually works unlike with Acer software.

Obviously I will not buy another Acer computer and in my computer classes I will advise against others getting defective software..

[philetus]

When recoveries get messed up in any brand it can get tricky and sometimes weird. I'm glad you got your laptop usable again.