SP315-51 Installing fresh windows changing brightness feature is not available.

After upgrading my SP315-51 laptop to SSD, I installed new fresh window using bootable pendrive as many people suggested installing fresh window instead of cloning window from hard drive. However, after installation, changing brightness feature is not available and three finger gestures are limited which is must feature for me, I was even unable to downoad acer applications that came inbuilt with my laptop except one or two (other features may also be unavailable but I couldn't wait and check as the most important basic features were missing even after trying to restore them). I tried backing up my drivers and restoring them through Windows powershell and other third party apps but this is still not solved. I also tried downloading drivers from acer driver download but to no vain, so I am just using my laptop through window in my hard disk.

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Alejandro_AC

Hi @dibya005 are we talking about Windows 10?

Thank you.
All the best.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/684633/installing-fresh-window

If you prefer Windows10? on your old HDD (now your external USB drive?) you can still Clone or Backup the HDD and restore to your new 2.5" SATA SSD?. I am making a lot of assumptions as you give us little information.

Consider putting back your bootable HDD and placing the SSD in a USB case (or connect to a USB cable). Then format the external SDD as NTFS in File Explorer this will remove all data on your SSD. This MS guide tells you how to initialize that SSD.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/initialize-new-disks

Now you need to Backup or clone your HDD to the empty external SSD. I favor backing up disks with W7 Backup in W10-W11 but you will need an extra Backup drive for that, preferably 4TB, a good thing to have (either HDD or SSD), as you should backup your laptop monthly; create one Windows image file with W7 BU and an extra BU file with good freeware BU like Aomei or EaseUS (I have EaseUS). Both Windows (Recovery USB flash drive) and EaseUS create bootable USB flash drives that restore the image-BU files to the internal SSD (or external drive). You then backup your entire internal HDD to that 4TB BU drive in a volume created and labeled as "Windows Images" (or "EaseUS BU"). The final step is to replace the HDD with the initialized empty SDD and restore the image (or BU file) from the USB 4TB BU drive to the new internal SSD. Make sure that the SDD is a bit larger than the old HDD as the whole drive is backed up and when volumes are extracted the target drive needs to be identical or slightly larger (10 GB) than the original source size (the HDD size).

dibya005

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1199309#Comment_1199309

My apologies for the little information. My laptop came with inbuilt windows 10 Home and I would like to use the same as it doesn't support windows 11. And I am using M.2 NVME PCIe 3*4 SSD and 1TB HDD at the same time (I intend to use SSD for Window and HDD for storage). I didn't erase my local disk C: of my HDD in case something would go wrong. And currently as I am not able to solve the problems stated in previous thread I am using window in my HDD which is slower. Cloning window to SDD is possible however it is not as fast as that of newly installed window.

Alejandro_AC

@dibya005 can you tell me if you have errors in the device manager and the ID it shows?

Thank you.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1199339#Comment_1199339

Understood I guessed it all wrong🤨

"not as fast as that of newly installed window." That all depends how well you maintained your current Windows system, not missing any updates (now 22H2). Some claim that a fresh install of Windows11 is better/faster than the automatic Windows upgrade offered by W10 Update. I completely disagree and the many failed ISO installs and driver disasters posted in this forum prove that. Same with the Windows updates that are installed "manually". But if you had (registry) issues and BSODs with your old Windows version you are probably correct.

billsey

That's why we suggest cloning the old drive instead of doing a clean Windows install. You lose all Acer specific apps unless they have them available on the support site (and only a couple of utilities are on the support site).