The Windows 8 ISO is not specific to Acer.
However, with your Serial Number, Model, etc. of your laptop, you can look for the drivers at the Acer website:
Download Drivers and Manuals | Acer Official Site
The apps may be in the Apps Store.
Yes, that's maybe true, that you can find the drivers on Acer's page, but still you don't have the preinstalled apps and OEM information from the factory configuration. :/
To get these, you need to purchase the Reccovery CDs from Acer, or, you can try Post #9 and see if you can access the Recovery partition....the preinstalled apps and OEM information from the factory configuration
The best option, IMO, is to purchase the Recovery CD from Acer. You can keep the CD for any future issue, if one were to occur.
Maybe I'll try the post #9, because as you said. The recovery DVD is charged. When I wanted a recovery DVD few years ago, it was free and now it's charged :/. But thank you for your support.
Open command prompt (admin) and type:
Diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
list partition
exit
reagent /info
post a pic of cmd window...
We need to find the Original Windows 8 Recovery Tools and the Factory Recovery Image's
Here's the screenshot
RainbowShaggy,
You are in excellent hands receiving help from Kyhi!!!
Kyhi is very knowledgeable on the use of Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE).
Windows PE | RE has tools for manual system recovery and image based recovery.
From what I can tell - this does not look like it was a windows 8 to windows 10 upgrade...
What is your current OS?? and what was the factory OS ???
But try this from cmd prompt (admin)
diskpart
select disk 0
select partition 5
assign letter=R
exit
Post pic of "R:" contents and sub folders
looking for install.wim or install.swm(s)
Yes, beacuse as I said. I tried to install Windows 8.1 ISO when it wanted installation media from Alt + F10 key. The original factory it should be Windows 8 or 8.1 I'm not sure.
Here's the file list:
Code:Folder PATH listing for volume Push Button Reset Volume serial number is 64BE-361A R:\ ³ Flag.log ³ ImageInfo.dat ³ LPCD_1.dat ³ LPCD_2.dat ³ LPCD_3.dat ³ NAPP.DAT ³ Napp7.log ³ RCD.DAT ³ Restore.dat ³ SystemCD.dat ³ SYSTEMCD_VERSION.DAT ³ ÃÄÄÄFACTORY ³ LAN_DownloadP1.log ³ LAN_DownloadP3.log ³ ÃÄÄÄRecoveryImage ³ ³ DONOTREPLACE.txt ³ ³ install.wim ³ ³ ReCreatePartition.txt ³ ³ ResetConfig.xml ³ ³ ResetConfig_SAMPLE.xml ³ ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄOEM ³ ³ BasicReset_AfterImageApply.cmd ³ ³ BasicReset_BeforeImageApply.cmd ³ ³ EnvVar.cmd ³ ³ FactoryReset_AfterDiskFormat.cmd ³ ³ FactoryReset_AfterImageApply.cmd ³ ³ ReBuildSSD.exe ³ ³ ³ ÃÄÄÄNAPP ³ ³ Flag.log ³ ³ ImageInfo.dat ³ ³ LPCD_1.dat ³ ³ LPCD_2.dat ³ ³ LPCD_3.dat ³ ³ NAPP.DAT ³ ³ Napp7.log ³ ³ PBR.dat ³ ³ RCD.DAT ³ ³ Restore.dat ³ ³ SystemCD.dat ³ ³ SYSTEMCD_VERSION.DAT ³ ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄOBR ³ ³ CopyEFI_byOEM.cmd ³ ³ Lang.XML ³ ³ modifybcdtoPBR.cmd ³ ³ modifybcdtoWinRE.cmd ³ ³ OBRSetTool_amd64.exe ³ ³ OBRSetTool_X86.exe ³ ³ v1.0.0.4 ³ ³ ³ ÀÄÄÄLog ³ modifybcdLog.log ³ OBRSetTool.log ³ ÀÄÄÄRyTools ³ AppendSystemToPBRImage.cmd ³ ApplyImageToOS.cmd ³ configuration_file.ini ³ DumpDiskPart.log ³ DumpDiskPart_NAPP2P_END.log ³ DumpDiskPart_NAPP3P_END.log ³ DumpDiskPart_NAPP3P_Init.log ³ DumpFileList.log ³ InfoDataBackup.cmd ³ ÀÄÄÄWMIControl RecoveryMode_Get.cmd RecoveryMode_Set_0Disable.cmd RecoveryMode_Set_1Enable.cmd SecureBootPromptMessageConfirm_Get.cmd SecureBootPromptMessageConfirm_Set_0NotChange.cmd SecureBootPromptMessageConfirm_Set_1ConfirmToChange.cmd SecureBootPromptMessageConfirm_Set_2Default.cmd SecureBootPromptMessage_Get.cmd SecureBootPromptMessage_Set_0NoPromptMessage.cmd SecureBootPromptMessage_Set_1PromptMessage.cmd WMIControl.exe
Reagentc /setosimage /path \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition5\RecoveryImage /index 1
then
reagentc /info
you should now see a recovery image and index registered
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