Aspire ES1-332 no OS!

I went to visit my friend over the weekend, they have this little Acer Aspire ES1-332 laptop. It only has a 32GB hard drive with windows 10 installed and she was constantly getting low disc space warnings and couldn't even install windows updates. "Ah you need Ubuntu" I thought...

After wiping the disk and installing ubuntu all I get is "No bootable device".. then I found out that getting Ubuntu to run on these laptops is a real hassle and even if you manage to it doesn't run well.

So I thought I'd stick windows 10 back on and give it back to her... NOPE. it doesn't recognise my USB ISO either (I know it works as tested on other laptop).

So I'm left with no OS on this thing and can't work out how to put anything on it!

I've tried 32bit & 64bit versions of windows 10 created using Rufus, GPT partition scheme for UEFI, FAT32 file system.

It's using bios v1.08, the only options there are secure boot on / off.

When I press F12 to select a boot media nothing is there.

I've never had such a hassle installing an OS on a laptop before!

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Tmzdroid

You need to use GPT Partition scheme for UEFI when creating the installation flash drive for it to be recognised I use a program called rufus.

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Balatekie

Hi, You may receive the error "No Bootable Device" if your computer does not detect a hard drive, solid state drive, or other bootable drive to load the operating system. This can sometimes be caused by a change to settings in your BIOS or UEFI. Use the following steps to resolve this situation:

Hold the power-button for 5 seconds to power off the device.
Power on the system. As soon as the first logo screen appears, immediately press the F2 key, or the DEL key if you have a desktop, to enter the BIOS.
Press F9 and then ENTER to load the default configuration. Press F10 to save your changes, and restart the system. Select Yes and press ENTER to confirm.

Your system should boot up normally. Once your System boots and if there is no OS, you can create Microsoft Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to Correct it. Please visit the below web link for instructions to create Windows 10 Media Creation Tool.

https://us.answers.acer.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/48158

I hope that the solution provided fix your issue. If you are still experiencing a problem, please contact Acer support for further assistance.

Tmzdroid

You need to use GPT Partition scheme for UEFI when creating the installation flash drive for it to be recognised I use a program called rufus.

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Tmzdroid said:

You need to use GPT Partition scheme for UEFI when creating the installation flash drive for it to be recognised I use a program called rufus.