Notebooks & Netbooks

[hajducsalad]

Came to a point when I should completely restore the OS on my Acer Aspire 4752. Neither through Alt+F10 nor through eRecovery am I able to get around a Notice with the following "please complete operating system setup process before doing system recovery". There is only one option of this notice, that is to ok it and then the current Windows 7 Home Premium OS starts and I am not able to get out of this viscious circle. The OS works and is completely set up, so I do not understand what am I prompted to do. I see a number of postings out there, but no solution. Local Acer does not seem to know anything about the problem nor it's existence. Did not find anything here, except for an unsolved, archived post. Any suggestions pls? Thks

[philetus]

http://community.acer.com/t5/2013-Archives/Acer-System-recovery-CDs-not-working/td-p/8139

[philetus]

I found this solution by GuruAid-CS.It may help you.

Solution!  ‎You can run Check Disk through command prompt. But before that, we recommend you to try out the following steps to complete the installation of Windows in your system:

1. On the screen that displays "Windows restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install windows, click ok to restart the computer, then restart the installation" error, press Shift+F10 keys. This will open up a black window which is actually a command prompt window.
2. In the command prompt window, type "regedit" (without quotes). This will open your Registry Editor.
3. In the Registry Editor, go to "HKLocal machine/SYSTEM/SETUP/STATUS/ChildCompletion" and highlight ChildCompletion
4. After highlighting, check for setup.exe on the right-hand side. If the value here is 1, you need to change it to 3. You can do this by double-clicking on setup.exe and changing the value shown in the box.
5. Now close the registry editor and close the command prompt window.
6. Click on "Ok" for the error and your computer will restart and complete the installation process.

To run Check Disk through command prompt, open command prompt window by following the instructions mentioned in the step 1 above and then type "chkdsk /f/r" (without quotes) in the window.

[philetus]

1. On the screen that displays "Windows restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install windows, click ok to restart the computer, then restart the installation" error, press Shift+F10 keys. This will open up a black window which is actually a command prompt window.
2. In the command prompt window, type "regedit" (without quotes). This will open your Registry Editor.
3. In the Registry Editor, go to "HKLocal machine/SYSTEM/SETUP/STATUS/ChildCompletion" and highlight ChildCompletion
4. After highlighting, check for setup.exe on the right-hand side. If the value here is 1, you need to change it to 3. You can do this by double-clicking on setup.exe and changing the value shown in the box.
5. Now close the registry editor and close the command prompt window.
6. Click on "Ok" for the error and your computer will restart and complete the installation process.

To run Check Disk through command prompt, open command prompt window by following the instructions mentioned in the step 1 above and then type "chkdsk /f/r" (without quotes) in the window.

[hajducsalad]

Hi philetus, thanks a lot, will try on the weekend when my wife is back with the laptop.

[hajducsalad]

Hi Philetus,

The settings in the registry were ok, have no clue why could not solve from the HD, eventually got hold of a set of recovery CDs and managed with that. Thks

[philetus]

No problem. Glad you're good now.