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Question: What was your OS? Did you completely formatted your HDD or the recovery partition only? Can you boot into windows normally if your C drive is ok? If yours was windows 8.1 or 8 I might have some ideas.

Run the W10 setup and upgrade to W10 first from within your activated present OS just to retain your activation status. check if your W10 is activated before you atempt a clean install from boot. 

Check if your windows 7 is activated. Ensure your win 10 ISO is the exact counter version of your Win 7 ( win10 home = win 7 home/win 10 single language=win 7 single language etc) with correct architecture (32 or 64 bits). Most OEMs are shipped with single language version. DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT boot from your USB…

Very unusual problem. Question: When you bought the computer what was the operating system? Who is giving you the message "product ID key blocked"? windows 10 or Acer??

Hi Iron Fly, Its me again I have taken a different approach. reinstalled windows 8.1 by usb media just to get the option "copy the recovery partition from pc to the recovery drive" Did the xml edit and reagent disable/enable but the option still greyed out. any sugestion?

I do have that in mind...i read somwhere to create installation media and replace the install.wim with my OEM install.wim. however i am having trouble downloading the installation media since I am behind a proxy.

Its in the recovery image>OEM folder

here it is This is from the partition wizard but under nomal windows explorer lot of files are missing.

well i created the partition successfully. this is the content of the partition when explored by partition wizard But when i copy that partition using the same tool this is what i get You can see clearly the BOOTSEC and some other files have gone missing And when i manually copy these files to the active partitioned USB it…

Well I havnt wiped my HDD yet as I am in an offshore installation in the middle of the sea and this laptop is sort of my lifeline. However I will give it a shot once back in "civilization" . Meantime I am unable to create a usb which will boot (with the recovery partition in it) and activate the e recovery software. I have…

I am having some trouble clonning the "Push button reset" partition and making it bootable.Is there any particular freeware which would help?? since i am planning to wipe my hdd my objective is to clone the "push button reset" in a 16GB USB thumbdrive and boot from it by hitting f12 and chossing USB. What could be the…

Are you talking about wiping the entire drive with all partition or the c: partition only? I am familier with cloning the recovery partition to a usb but how do I make it bootable? or is it automatically bootable since I am clonning from recovery partition and changing the status/flag of the usb to"boot" ? I will boot from…

I did exactly what you said. it did get into some reset options(but it was not acer e recovery) It did not give me any factory restore option but it gave me a choice of reset this pc....which I did and after the operation completed the PC is again back with a fresh install of windows 10. any advice??

Sorry I was still editing my post. As you can see the Alt+f10 is saying "no OS found"

its been a week and I am still waiting for activation. I am frustrated and trying to go back to my factory default win 8 and do a upgrade. but I am having issues with recovery. Most likely the clean install messed up my original acer MBR and alt+f10 is giving me a message "no OS found". I have checked my partitions and it…

exact same problem as razta

ACER Aspire v5-431 Update: I changed from uefi to legacy bios and only then i can see the d2d option in the bios main menu. But after pressing alt+10 during post. it shows "no os found". any sugestion??

I am quite sure that my recovery partition is intact...could you please recomend any particular software to clone it into a thumbdrive and boot from there?? 

I am getting Error code: 0xC004C003 (the specified product key has been blocked) I called up microdoft phone support and spoke to a rep. He told me systems shipped with preinstalled OEM windows will not be able to do clean install. it can only be upgraded. And I did not enter any product key. I have skipped thse steps. I…