Windows 8 won't start up

Hi all

I have an acer aspire E1-531 which is less than a month old. The only things I have loaded on it is Microsoft Office 2013 and Firefox. I have also activated the Mcafee AV trial. I haven't even set up the email on it yet.

Today, I was working off the battery on a Word document stored on a usb drive. No problems. Saved everything, closed it down.

Restarted about an hour later and I get the Acer welcome screen, then a blank screen with the mouse pointer. The touch pad moves the pointer around but nothing else. I have tried starting in safe mode using the shift f8 but that hasn't worked. What is going on and how can i fix it?

thanks

Kevin

Accepted answers

Jorge-Acer

Try a Dirty boot, consisting on power on and off the unit until you force the Autohealing mode, go to Advanced Options go into troubleshoot n restore or reset your PC.

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Spudster

One thing you can try doing if you have the Windows 8 installation is try to re-install windows 8 on the drive.

Jorge-Acer

Try a Dirty boot, consisting on power on and off the unit until you force the Autohealing mode, go to Advanced Options go into troubleshoot n restore or reset your PC.

LonePine

Thanks - this seemed to work. Windows 8 then installed an update and off it went as usual.

Jorge-Acer

Hi, Did you restore the OS or factory reset the unit? What kind of update caused the problem? Did you received a Blue Screen? If so do a Complete clean Factory Reset, before runnig any update go and change your update instalation setting and set it up to install mannualy. Go a few at a time to identify the update causing he problem. Make a Print Screen and send me a message. Be aware of compatibility issues if the update is for an added software or hardware.

Spudster

Glad you got it working again.

I would recomend buying A Wndows 7/8 Installation disc in case anything else goes wrong with the machine. I have A Windows installation disc. In case I have to Re install the OS as the last resort.