I want to thank everybody who advised me but at this point I think we are at a dead end.
I bought the computer 18 days ago so I am going to use my warranty.

This is a brand new drive installed after all options failed.
As I said before both my DVD drive and my usb ports are inaccessible. Unless Hirams' boot is something you wear to kick the computer it...

Something I forgot to mention is that after I ran all the aforementioned repair options they became unavailable along with the ability to boot from usb. I can now only access the bios. when I boot...

Thanks for the info. I will try the reset. As for the age of the computer I bought it about 3 weeks ago but it was a refurb so the HDD could have been bad but replacing it did not change anything....

I have an acer aspire TC-705 that I recently purchased. It's specs are:
Intel i5 quad core processor 3.2 GHZ
16G RAM
1 Tb HDD
Win 10 home

I was online and just clicked to close the browser...

topgundcp:

That video was amazing! Unfortunately, it will be a long time before I can report my results to you. At 74 I have to go over new material
many times before I can put it all...

While I had windows XP I partitioned my hard drive and had ubuntu running side-by-side with windows.
When I tried that with windows Vista ubuntu wiped out everything and took over the whole drive....