Acer w510 with only guest account.

rsarceno
rsarceno Member Posts: 3 New User
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Acer w510 with keyboard attachment.  Admin account was disable.  I try enabling admin, safe mode or reload factory settings (alt+f10).  Nothing seems to work.  Acer Recovery management doesn't seem to work while login as guest.

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  • rsarceno
    rsarceno Member Posts: 3 New User

    I also enable boot and press F12.  The only option available is Windows Boot manager.  I have a bootable USB (Hiren/Ubunti) and USB DVD (bootable) but the system can not detect it.  UEFI compliant devices but only getting Windows Boot Manager.  

  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder
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    They may be UEFI compliant but are they signed and 32 bit ?  

     

    May not help here but the first thing I do with a new machine is to create a second admin account just in case.

     

    Worst case you might download the Windows 8 90 day eval from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx and try that.

  • MayWu
    MayWu Member Posts: 51

    Tinkerer

    Try send back to Acer to reinstall Acer OS if you couldn't recovery your OS.

  • rsarceno
    rsarceno Member Posts: 3 New User

    The was the issued.  Not signed.  I can create Windows 8 UEFI bootable but not Hiren or others

  • padgett
    padgett ACE Posts: 4,532 Pathfinder

    My understanding is that to boot an unsigned OS you must do the following in order (and maybe reboot after each):

    1) go into BIOS and set a BIOS password

    2) go into security and erase the signature store

    3) disable safe boot

     

    Note: (2) cannot be done unless safe boot is enabled.

     

    Then anything should boot.

     

    Please let me know if this works, I have not needed it.

     

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