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Complete loss of windows 7. Why?
Ghost:
I have an Acer aspire 5733z w/ windows 7 home premium sp1 , 64 bit OS, Intel pentium processor @2.13 GHz, 500 GB HHD, 4 GB ram, and 1 big problem. My best guess as to how this disaster began has something to do with volume values and populating a service page. I had just about got it set up to what I thought would operate at full capicity and felt comfortable to me. As you can tell, I'am at best, familiar with the computer world. I did back up DVDs and system image and a system repair disk. My image disk went with my sons desktop to the unknown and as for back up dvds , they had no musicon them, therefore, deemed useless by my daughter s know nothing best friend for life, dad. Don't know to this day how that overrides my missing disks. I do have a system repair disk and 5 well used Acer recovery disk, language ?, system, and 3 recovery disk with no way to know which is 1,2, or 3. Now to my first endeavor, my system was fine when I left it, I know it got tweaked while I gone now, but when I return I try to sign onto my profile which now does not appear to be there any more. No icons at all, there is 2, mine and guest. I restart several times and sometimes it would show them, I would click mine w/ PW then it would go to partial next page in windows and endlessly spin the load circle. At this time I loaded safe w/ network and could tell most all services had stopped and they would not start up for me, each w/ a reason I did not understand. I followed some help and repair ins. built in to check the box to keep Microsoft services intact then disable all to explore the reason for this, when restart left me w/ no windows at all. No safe or nothing. I run repair disk only to have each tool tell me can not complete restore. Tried each one, then try Acer disk only to get to screen showing progress and update graphs doing nothing at all for hours. I would like to get to my files and such, but will sacrifice if need be.
Now the second, I got a new 500 GB HHD shipped to me from Acer awhile back and never installed it. I tried to replace the bad w/ it and on it which is a scorpion blue WD, it says windows 7 is is ready, all others had some things needed to be followed. I get nothing from it. I engaged the Acer recovery and tried the full factory reset only to have it popup a remove all files from hard disk before starting. This function will not work if there are any files on disk. I can only hit OK. And we start over again. I b stuck rite there. New HHD won't work and other one don't like me no more. Is there any hope for this Dad that only ask for my laptop back w/ all new keep your hands off rules?
Thanks for your time and if you can help,I use the pay it forward method of appreciation and what ever else I can do.
jraju:
If your question is up to the point, the real solution will be flowing. From the story, you described, it seems that you have messed something with volumes , which should not have been at the first place.
What is your actual problem?. could you log on to the computer with the available account? Is that boot? to the normal screen.
I think, from the foregoing that you have tried all sort of web solutions and in turn, i suppose, that your system is messed up completely. Does not know how to schedule the task that it should do normally. There are some tweaks, if left in the middle, or applied to a system registry will totally change the language which computer knows.
Sorry , I am trying to help. But give the precise data and eventlog to get more specifc solutions
Shane:
OK they sent you a new hard drive for a reason. Most likely your hard drive in the system has bad sectors. And some files that windows needs when logging in is on one of those bad sectors, so thats why things started having trouble for you.
If you where my customer then I would be backing up anything you cant replace off the old drive, pictures, docs, emails and then yank the old drive and put in the new.
I never use the system recovery from the manufacturer. I always install fresh and it isnt hard to do.
First before you do you want to go to the product page for your system on their site and download the Windows 7 64 bit network drivers and save them to a thumb drive.
Then after you backup your file you will need a windows 7 cd which you can get here
https://sites.google.com/site/linuxlablibrary/windows-iso
Then you will burn the iso from that site to a dvd. Now power down the system and put in the new drive.
When you turn on the system you want to have the windows cd in and you want to boot off the dvd itself.
Now your in windows setup. Go through the setup. When you get to the point where it asks you where you want to install windows you will see the hard drive.
Delete any partition and then click next. Windows will partition the drive and start the install. very easy to do and follow.
Once windows is installed and you are on the desktop you will install the network drivers you downloaded. You can now get on the internet and download any other drivers you need from the product page for the system, get windows updates and do what ever you need :-)
Shane
Rick:
Dear All; I have migrated to Version 7 over the new year...
Acer? :sad:
Did the BIOS setting change? "I recently had that problem, I had to manually change it back", forgot which setting, cant write now as I am using the computer...
Did you install a new hard drive, if you installed a new hard drive, you must re-install everything...
Have the original disk, if not, you better to buy one; run the repair...
failing that, Acer :sad:
For reference; I intentionally crashed the MBR to test WIN7 repair; it repaired Win Vista And Win 7 MBR to reboot into the operating systems... ************************************************************************************************
I used the WIN ultimate version
Ghost:
I'm not exactly sure if you are truly concerned with my situation, although, I can assure you that if you are sincere with your reply, I do, indeed, appreciate the immediate responce you deemed necessary and the patience demonstrated through out your outline of experience. I found it quite informative, but, lacking any new evidence to stray from the immediate procedure at hand, so kindly donated by the "Top Dog", Shane.
I will, of course, post all results once I complete the outline. I'am expecting to finish it in the next few hours and being excited to regain my laptop, I will control my anticipation of gratitude at this time.
Don't hate on cause you already know how.
Thank you... :undecided:
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