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Problem: stuck in acer logo when trying to boot from usb after message of launching efi. Model- AN515-43 Nitro 5
Scenario: I was updating my laptop (currently win11) and it crashed during reboot and then got stuck in boot loading screen with acer logo.
Tried Rufus tool to setup GPT based bootable usb for win10 and 11 and also tried windows tool for win10 in 8gb pendrive. Did bios setup for loading from usb boot menu. Tried with secure boot enabled disabled both but no luck. Even the service center is quiet far. Nothing major found on google. Please help.
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FAQ & Answers
Hi,
Could you please try the solution by @JackE in this thread:Unable to boot Windows 10 installer. — Acer Community
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I already had the bios supervisor password. However, considering to give a try, i tried resetting it and also reset all bios secure boot settings. Same issue :(
Try a hard reset by disconnecting the main and bios batteries and take the ram out and clean their pins and port, leave them disconnected for 15min reconnect all and try to reboot, if that doesn't work then try to put the installation Win-11 USB into the USB port and turn the laptop off, reboot and as soon as the laptop lights up press F10 continually so that you get to the Advanced options screen then click on Startup Repair, as its either your startup files that are corrupted or your boot dive has errors and that is why its in a boot loop.
If you have valuable data on this drive, get the data recovered by a professional tech, if you don't then do a clean install of Win-11 and start from scratch by getting into the installation USB Win-11 drive the same as above and through System Restore then starting the Win-11 installation process and completely formatting the boot drive and reinstalling Win-11 and all its updates to the version 22H2 OS build 22621.819 which is the latest.
Tried this but no luck. Also I'm not getting into repair screen even by pressing F10. Also I had connected one local service center, the engineer told me that going thru windows media creation tool won't be allowed in acer. I will have to go thru acer support and download windows from there. Is it true and possible? I tried visiting support links but nothing found for OS. Please help.
Hard drive was crash. Installed SSD and new windows on it. Trying for data recovery now. 🤞