i have decided that it is an exercise in futility to proceed any further trying to install W10 on that laptop .
sadly , i cannot find out anything at acer ... at this stage of the game i would not...

hmmm ...

i did a complete wipe of a hdd (wrote all zeros) .
installed drive and tried both a pendrive and dvd of W10 ...
i had to use the legacy mode in order to get past the "no bootable...

no dice on the recovery disks .
moving forward ...
i installed a 500gig hdd that i had removed the partitions on (had W7 on it) .
fired it up and booted from a W10 fdd installer ...
it found the...

a friend is checking to see if he has a set of re-installation disks for this machine .
not much hope though ...
i have a notion that a set of disks will not fix the problems with this machine .

i checked the time/date in the bios ...
current time is correct (and counting)
date is : 01/18/2017

thanks for the info on the disk .

the flash drives are 16GB .

hmmm ...
when i disable the "secure boot" in the bios , save and restart , it says there is no bootable device .
?
also ...
i noticed that the hdd password is "frozen" ?

could this be a part...

is there a tutorial for the use of that exe/program/tool ?

as usual , the head shed had more surprise projects .

i am dl'ing the stuff at the link you provided .
will make a usb drive .
hopefully i can muddle through an attempted use/install .
thanks ....

the time/date and cmos cell are ok .
i have the day off but have been working on a couple of projects around the house .
i should be freed up in a couple of hours to make another attempt .

i tried installing W10 three times ... no go .
at least the machine reverts to 8.1 .

i get the same security/expired exe message and error code as with the 8.1 install .
there has to be...

ok ... i have had enough day today ... busy as heck .
i'll dl the iso tomorrow morning and give it a go .
(i get up at 0400)
thanks .

ok ... from the top ...

tried to dl and use a pendrive to install 8.1 ... same scenario ... error code/expired exe .
i got the screen of options and disabled the "security checking" (i think ......

back to it ...
i am going to try installing 8.1 and then 10 ...
perhaps this may work .

was away from comp ... getting ready for work .
(shaving with a double edge battle axe takes some time)
i'll give it another shot when i get off work ... depending on how things go .

i have not...

was away from comp ... getting ready for work .
(shaving with a double edge battle axe takes some time)
i'll give it another shot when i get off work ... depending on how things go .

i have not...

back to W7 ... and the "we couldn't install ..." bit , with the error code of : 0xc1900101-0x30017 .
at least it recovered ... better luck than some people have had .

rebooted again and tried "f8" ...
my previous version of windows is being restored .

restarted the machine manually ...
comes back up and stops at (seemingly) the same point as before .
(it is a solid black background with only the 4 panes showing)
at least this is further than...

hello ...

i did exactly that ... i got to thinking about "expired components" and such and figured i had nothing to loose while waiting for a response here .
i went to the MS site and grabbed...

hey all ,

disaster comp from the netherworld ... a project taken on for a young college student after a couple of her *friends* tried to work on it and did a botched job .
they tried to install...