Notebooks & Netbooks

[Marty_McSly]

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IronFly wrote:

yes, not available in Australia.

you must call them:

http://www.acer.com.au/ac/en/AU/content/service-contact

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Called them, unfortunately they don't send out recovery media. I have to send the computer to Acer Oz to have it factory reimaged, at a cost of A$109. The touch screen is cracked as well, so I'm not too keen on having it couriered to and fro.

At this stage I'm thinking that I'll give Philetus's cloning approach a try. If that doesn't work, I'll just buy Win 8.1 Pro and install it via Win 7. That'll only cost $21 more than a factory reimage, upgrade to 8.1 then upgrade to 8.1 Pro, and take a lot less time. I want to end up with 8.1 Pro anyway now that I have Samba4 AD up & running.

Thanks IronFly and Philetus for your time and patience.

[philetus]

No problem

[philetus]

Hi Marty, If you're still trying to get the laptop going, here's something.

http://community.acer.com/t5/Desktops-All-In-Ones/stuck-on-system-restore-installing-office-2010/m-p...

Seems if you can copy the recovery partition to your new HDD and make it bootable, it will boot into recovery. Make your partitions the same size as the old one

[zer0_]

Hi, I had a similiar problem with my E1-572G, solved by downloading a copy of windows oem untouched from torrent. I burnt it on a usb drive using gpt partition system and booted from usb (shoul do this without entering the bios setting), windows found the product key from bios and installed just fine.