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Thank you for that but that link only allows for you to enter a key from software that was purchased independently. It does not allow to download software OEM version and attempting to enter the product key on the laptop I am working on gives the following response:
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The product key you've entered appears to be for software which was pre-installed by the device manufacturer. Please contact the device manufacturer for software recovery options.
Acer is doing customers a great diservice by not putting the OS on their download tap that says OS in support.
Additionally I have encountered the laptop requires a password to get into the BIOS. I KNOW my friend has no clue as to why she should even attempt to go to the BIOS. I cannot get the laptop to boot to the Windows disc.
I was able to find an ISO . Its a SHAME everyone just cuts people off when they could fix their own PC's.
Additionally I have encountered the laptop requires a password to get into the BIOS. I KNOW my friend has no clue as to why she should even attempt to go to the BIOS. I cannot get the laptop to boot to the Windows disc.
I was able to find an ISO . Its a SHAME everyone just cuts people off when they could fix their own PC's.
I did find an ISO of Windows Home Premium 64 bit at
http://www.pcsteps.com/45-download-windows-7-iso-legally-free-learning process
http://www.pcsteps.com/45-download-windows-7-iso-legally-free-learning process
I have a laptop: Acer 4736G, using Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I use this laptop for web surfing and typing document only, no playing any game. Recently, I encounter the following issue: When I typing on the Micosoft word, the computer suddenly turn off instantly by itself, Iwithout any warning. I power on back the laptop, and it work fine. I have an Acer netbook with W7HPx64, and an 'Windows(r) 7 Home Prem OA Acer Group' sticker with Product Key. Do you guys know: might I.
Disk Management flags have the following meanings......
........All the other 'flags' are virtual. They're just Windows telling you what the results of the completed boot chain were.
Thanks, Terry, for the clarifications.........All the other 'flags' are virtual. They're just Windows telling you what the results of the completed boot chain were.
One of the things I noted in my first post, that I didn't mention in my long post on September 15th, was that I had installed a Linux distribution (Robolinux) to the (renamed) PQSERVICE partition at the beginning of the drive, and specified that the installer not write to the MBR, but only to the PBR (Partition Boot Record). Upon booting after the install, I was shown the Grub boot menu (when I had expected the Windows boot menu). This occurrence also leads me to believe that the BIOS on my Acer is not jumping to the MBR (which would have shown the Windows boot menu, judging from the how the Hirens BootCD 15.2 has worked). Instead, it jumped to the PBR of PQSERVICE, which now contained the Grub boot menu I had installed there. That's why I was greeted with the Grub boot menu, as I don't believe the MBR was ever accessed. Using Hirens BootCD 15.2, I jumped to the MBR, and booted correctly. At least, that is my best guess!
As you pointed out, when I used the CD to boot, it found the Neosmart files that I had created on my C: drive with EasyBCD, and displayed the menu I had designed. I indeed could boot from there either to Windows 7 or to Robolinux. To me, it all makes sense if Acer has used a custom BIOS that doesn't work the way other BIOS's do. Changing bits in the MBR depending on what it finds in PQSERVICE sounds a bit non-standard to me, too, but I could be wrong on that.
Thanks again!
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