I have an Acer Aspire E1-571 SN: [edited for privacy] in U.K. with Windows 8 64 bit preinstalled and I am trying to upgrade the HDD to a SSD hybrid 1TB Seagate. The new drive is GPT formatted, online and healthy.
I have written a system image to the new drive and used the recovery disk to restore it to the new drive but the new drive is locked.
I tried making a byte for byte copy of the system disk to the new disk and restoring / recovering the system on the new drive, that didn't work, still locked.
I tried fitting my new drive with the byte for byte copy of the system and pointing the BIOS a the EFI files on the new drive, that didn't work, still locked.
Every time I put the original disk back it boots fine first time.
I'm sure I am no the first to find this, is there sollution?