Acer one 10 S1003 doesn't boot from windows bootable USB

mdx90 · April 2018

Hello all

I will apologies in advance for my English

So here is what happened, i bought Acer one 10 which comes with windows 10 pre-installed and i have installed linux on it, but due to some driver problem i decided to go back to windows 10, but guess what???
it doesn't boot, just keep boot looping.

things i have tried: boot from micro usb port, boot from Keyboard usb port, play little bit with UEFI settings
but no success!!

if you guys could help me out, i would be thankful

Sharanji · April 2018

mdx90

Go to BIOS settings with F2 key

Add the .efi file to the trusted UEFI files by selecting it and naming the option to whatever you want.

Enable F12 boot menu.

Exit saving changes.

Tap F12 until you get boot menu.

You will see your boot option there.

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mdx90 · April 2018

Sharanji said:

mdx90

Go to BIOS settings with F2 key
Add the .efi file to the trusted UEFI files by selecting it and naming the option to whatever you want.
Enable F12 boot menu.
Exit saving changes.
Tap F12 until you get boot menu.
You will see your boot option there.

Hit 'Like' if you find the answer helpful!
Click on 'Yes' if the comment answers your question!

Thanks for reply

i have tried but with no success

JackE · April 2018

If you didn't delete the hidden ACER recovery partition, press and hold the power button to completely shut the machine off. Then turn it back on and immediately press and hold the ALT key while tapping the F10 key. A recovery screen should appear. Follow directions as on this video to re-set the machine to factory fresh state. If it fails, we may have to alter partition sizes to original. Jack E/NJ

mdx90 · April 2018

JackE said:

If you didn't delete the hidden ACER recovery partition, press and hold the power button to completely shut the machine off. Then turn it back on and immediately press and hold the ALT key while tapping the F10 key. A recovery screen should appear. Follow directions as on this video to re-set the machine to factory fresh state. If it fails, we may have to alter partition sizes to original. Jack E/NJ

Unfortunately I did

mdx90 · April 2018

I remember once I successfully reinstalled windows 10 with no problem, don't know what happened now!
It boots successfully from bootable Linux

JordanB · April 2018

Since you have a 32 bit UEFI, I think you should try 32 bit windows. If that doesn't work, try to boot a Gparted live USB and delete all of your partitions. I'm not familiar with your computer model so I don't know what BIOS settings you should use. Default maybe? IDK

Edit: You can order your recovery media from Acer if you didn't create a recovery drive.

http://www.acer.com/worldwide/support/

JackE · April 2018

>>>play little bit with UEFI settings>>>It boots successfully from bootable Linux >>>

What is the Linux distribution? Is it a Linux GPT partition FAT32 installation stick that you tried to install in UEFI mode alongside Windows in dual boot? Or did you just delete all Windows stuff, installed Linux in UEFI mode on the drive hoping to boot Windows from a stick when needed? Jack E/NJ

adesedas · September 2018

I have the same problem. My son tried to installed an Android distribution on a Acer one 10 S1003 and now keep looping. I wanttogo back to Windows 10, but it has been a real problem. I am about to order a recovery drive from Acer. Where can I do that?

JackE · September 2018

@adesedas ; Press and hold the power button till the machine completely shut off. Then turn it back on and immediately press and hold the ALT key while tapping the F10 key. If the hidden ACER recovery partition is still intact, a recovery screen should appear as shown in the video below. It should allow re-setting the machine to a factory-fresh Win10 state. Jack E/NJ

vojtechh · August 24

Hello, after many long nights I have finally found the solution.

First, let me say that this computer (if you can even call it that) is terrible. I have never worked with anything worse than this. Now onto the guide:

Windows won't boot from the USB installation media at all, so you can't actually install windows on the thing. You will have to copy the installation over. For that we will use some linux magic and VirtualBox. So go ahead and download VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) on a different computer. Then you have to obtain the 32 bit Windows ISO (https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/software-download/windows10ISO).

Fire up VirtualBox and create a new Virtual Machine. The hard drive size should be about 28 GB. Then go to the settings of your VM and turn on EFI (System > Motherboard > Extended Features > Enable EFI). Then go ahead and boot your VM, select the ISO you've downloaded and proceed. Install Windows as you normally would but do not continue past the setup screen after reboot (the one where you pick your area). Press Shift+F10, cmd should pop up. Type in shutdown /s /t 0. The VM should shutdown.

After that go to the installation folder of VirtualBox (C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\) and open cmd there. Type in VBoxManage.exe clonehd --format RAW source.vdi Windows.img where source.vdi is the virtual disk you've created when creating the VM and Windows.img is the output file that is going to be created (You can put it on the desktop so you don't have to open CMD as an Administrator). Once that is done, download Rufus (https://rufus.ie/), open it up and press the SELECT button. Select the Windows.img you have just exported using VBoxManage. Then select a USB drive (min. 32GB) you will use (this will wipe it and you will lose all your data, so backup). Get a coffee since this is going to take a while.

Meanwhile rufus is burning the img onto the USB drive, download PuppyLinux (http://puppylinux.com/index.html#download > 32bit Ubuntu Bionic). Find another usb drive (this time it can be a small one, even 1 GB should work) and wait for the Rufus to finish the previous work. Don't close it yet, since we need it to burn puppy linux. Once again select it using the SELECT button and choose your smaller USB drive. It is important to select MBR as the partition scheme, since otherwise it won't boot. Once that is burned we are ready to boot it from the laptop/tablet.

Plug both drives to your acer tablet (you need an USB OTG cabel for this) and turn it on while pressing the ESC key. A configuration screen should show up. Go to Boot From File and then find the USB drive with puppy linux. Boot from the 32bit .efi file. Click enter on all the Grub screens and you should get to the desktop. Open terminal and type in lsblk a list of storage media should show up. Then type in dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 status=progress make sure to replace the X with a letter of the 32 gig USB drive from lsblk (mmcblk0 is the internal storage of the laptop, if that has a different name you have to change it according to the output from lsblk). Press enter and wait. Once this command completes you have successfully installed Windows on this terrible computer!

Reboot and finish the windows setup. After that press the Windows Key+R and type in diskmgmt.msc, right click on the C: partition and extend it to the maximum size.

The only thing left is to install all the drivers. Since there is no Wifi yet, you will have to copy them over. Luckily Acer has made an automatic installation of all the drivers (https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/6822?b=1 > Platform Drivers Installer). Once that is on the tablet, open cmd as root and cd to the Scripts folder of this driver package. Run the install file and wait for it to finish. Now all the drivers should be installed. Congrats.

DaveMartinelli · August 30

Thanks a lot vojtechh!!
You got it!!
I have followed your steps and I have finally been able to install Windows 10 Pro on this odious tablet.

Regards