Can't seem to find that Get Out of Jail Card to fix a working but NOT USABLE Acer One 10 S1002
At my urging, my elderly next door neighbour bought an Acer One 10 two summers ago. The price was right. The size and weight were right and he was quite pleased. I then told him to go to Ninite and download an updater for the programs I had placed on his computer. I hear you tsk, tsk, tsking away. (he needed to add one program I hadn't thought to include in the original downloader. I THOUGHT he'd watched me enough to build one of his own. I was VERY WRONG because he checked off EVERY SINGLE checkmark for the listed Ninite options) He ran his downloader to INSTALL EVERY NINITE PROGRAM. He soon ran out of space and the machine ground to a halt. He then put the computer away for a year, ashamed to tell what he'd done. Ignorance WAS bliss.
Okay, I thought, he doesn't HAVE any files on the system that would be important to lose to a factory reset. Just do that and the problem will be solved. That can't work. EVEN if I break into the safe-mode screen via START-LOUDER, all functions fail for a lack of space. I went into Command-line mode and tried some cleaning out that way. My DOS is a BIT rusty. But I was just spitting into the win in terms of freeing space. And getting to the BIOS via START, Ctrl-Alt-Delete twice, F2 twice proved ... less than useful. (and by the way, the method to ACCESS the BIOS remains truly aggravating. And an Easter Egg that smells. These things should be a LOT easier, especially if Acer showed the BIOS as it was loading. But the BIOS was locked on the first page and I could toggle between the date and time with the sound level rocker beside the power on button, but NOTHING ELSE worked because I couldn't make use of the keyboard. So I couldn't prioritize a USB stick with the Win10 Fall Creator ISO on it.
The system DOES boot (in fact it updated itself while I was watching today). I get to the LOCKED screensaver that has an aggravating Englishman voice reading the screen. When I try to power off, the screen flips up half-way, with a different picture, this of rocks, and an instruction to slide to finish the process. Oh, and the grating voice is back to read it (and the cancel when I randomly ciick on the bottom half of the screen). This computer has been reduced to an aggravating paperweight, all because my instructions to my friend were not specific enough. He's a MAC user and can be excused for screwing up ... although not for being a MAC user.
The BIOS is 1.10 on an 2013 Intel Atom Z3735F @ 1.33GHz with a total of 2048MB of DDR3L RAM. The Intel driver is 7.2.1007 and it's a ONE S1002.
Any ideas? My W10FC2017 is NTFS by the way. I'm guessing THAT's a problem too.
Anybody out there think they can bail me out? Thanks in advance.
