Received Acer recovery CD's but keep getting warning windows to change BIOS

sweetthing55

the pop-up window reads:

 

"WARNING! Please boot this Recovery Disc using legacy BIOS mode"

Please boot this Recovery Disc using legacy BIOS mode"

 

when I switch it to Legacy BIOS, then the pop-up window reads:

 

"WARNING! Please boot this Recovery Disc using UEFI BIOS mode"

 

I have tried secure boot enabled and disabled.

 

Ugh, what do I do to restore my computer?  I don't have Recovery on my PC.  It was lost with the WIN8.1 upgrade. 

 

Acer Aspire v5-571p

IronFly

i suggest you to create a bootable USB or CD media from Hiren's boot cd .iso
http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/
unzip the zip file, burn the .iso file to CD or USB pen/external HDD
then boot from the burned media and choose mini-xp from the options, once in the desktop, double click "command prompt"

then type
diskpart
then on diskpart type
list disk
take note of the correct disk ID to erase
type
select disk x
(x is the ID of your HDD to erase)
type
clean
type exit

shutdown Mini Xp

now boot from your recovery media using UEFI and secure boot enabled

sweetthing55

I received this message when I tried the above.

 

virtual disk service error: clean is not allowed on the disk containing the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump, or hibernation volume

 

I only have one hard drive.

 

thanks!