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Sinahp2008
Sinahp2008 Member Posts: 1
edited March 30 in 2017 Archives
Hi
My aspire vx5-591G laptop has a linux on it and i'm trying to install windows. How can i boot the laptop?

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  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    just follow these simple steps if you want to install windows 10 or 8:

    1)
    download the iso file of microsoft windows 10 (x64) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

    or

    download the iso file of microsoft windows 8 (x64) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8


    2) download Rufus, plug an USB flash drive and set Rufus as on the home page screen:
    https://rufus.akeo.ie/?locale=en_US
    click on the little disk icon on Rufus and point to the downloaded iso file
    let Rufus copy the installation files on USB flash drive

    3) press F2 booting your laptop, check on BIOS if UEFI is enabled, if not, enable it

    enable F12 boot menu under BOOT tab too

    then press F10 to save and exit

    4) plug the USB flash drive to your laptop, press F12 at next boot and choose the USB flash drive as bootable device
    proceed with windows 10 installation 

    5) once at language/keyboard selection, press shift+F10, a command prompt will open
    6) type
    Diskpart
    list disk
    select disk x (x is the number of your HDD)
    clean
    convert GPT
    exit
    exit again to close command prompt
    7) proceed with windows 10 installation
    enjoy your windows 10 installation

    I'm not an Acer employee.

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