Recent content by Keithm26

Made a Win8 recovery drive on other flash drive. Set it to Legacy BIOS. However, I had deleted the partition on the HDD. So it was going to repair, but then could not find any partition. Looks like I made a mistake. So what do I do from here..I'm lost.

When on UEFI it will not boot from USB. It boots from HDD and does the automatic repair each turn, then it can't fix it so I go to advanced options but there is no option there for an instal. Only a restore, and I have no restore point. It does the automatic repair each time but gives me no...

If I change back to UEFI then the USB drive does not show as an option for boot. When it boots it says "Preparing automatic repair" then it diagnoses and is unable to fix repair the issue. It cannot fix the issue, so I go to advanced options, troubleshoot then advanced options. However the only...

Wanted to do a clean install but it said of the main drive "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style" I'm confused, and also to do a repair install how would I do that?

Ok I got it to boot from USB. Do I need to do a clean install or is there a way around that?

I tried doing it before this way but got the "PXE-E61 Media Test Failure, Check Cable" error. Any further assistance? I used WinUSB maker tool to make the bootable USB flash drive. It does show in bios and I moved it up to number one. I still get this error.

Hello all, I recently purchased an Acer Aspire M5 for my wife to do school work with. It was working fine until yesterday when she powered it on. After the splash screen it goes to a black screen only showing the cursor and does nothing more. It is my understanding this will require a...