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Is this true Acer Aspire 8930G

post #1 of 15
11/3/09 at 5:24am
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I hope to find an answer here, I have an Acer Aspire 8930G. It came with Windows Vista but I bought Windows 7. I installed it and it runs fine up to the last boot (right after the accountname and internetconnection questions) After it boots it will go to the recovery straigt away. I called Acer and the guy was a man of few words, he basically just told me it couldn't be installed unless it was a Windows 7 bought from Acer. Is this really the case that Acer is like all those horrible telecomcompanies with their customized firmwares?

Thanks !!!
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post #2 of 15
11/3/09 at 5:33am
Were you performing a clean install of W7 or an upgrade to W7 from Vista?

What is the current Vista OS (32/64)? What is the W7 version you tried to move to?

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post #3 of 15
11/3/09 at 5:41am
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Thank you for your reply.

I tried both, clean install and upgrade and the current Vista OS is 32 and the Windows 7 was too. I also turned off the D2D option in the Bios and turned it back on.

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post #4 of 15
11/3/09 at 5:53am
I have seen this issue few times in the past, even with XP and W7. This has something to do with the recovery partition that is on the original installation. Many mentioned that using the recovery prompt and choose W7 installation would repair the boot record. But many users also just get another blank (new) drive and be done with it.

Give it a shot with the recovery and see if you can get W7 restart.

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post #5 of 15
11/3/09 at 6:33am
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Ok, atleast I am not the only one with that problem. I do wonder how to get to the Recovery prompt because I can't use ALT+F10 anymore because of trying to install Windows 7. Thanks again.
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post #6 of 15
11/3/09 at 6:54am
So you did wipe out the recovery partition that came with it? This W7 version, it is not an upgrade disk is it?

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post #7 of 15
11/3/09 at 7:13am
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Hey there, when you install another OS it automatically erases the MBR so ALT+F10 won't work.

My Windows 7 can be used as an upgrade.
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post #8 of 15
11/3/09 at 7:31am
Not necessarily. If you don't wipe out the recovery partition, Alt+F10 still works since this is a BIOS process.

If you currently have a clean disk (1 partition), I recommend giving W7 clean installation one more try.

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post #9 of 15
11/3/09 at 10:25am
Acer isn't horrible, but they won't guide you through an installation of a retail copy. All companies are like that.

just erase everything on you HDD, and then do a clean install. (google disk cleaner, wiper, write zero, etc.)

or

start the upgrade from vista.
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post #10 of 15
11/3/09 at 10:35pm
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Originally Posted by MichelleG View Post
Acer isn't horrible, but they won't guide you through an installation of a retail copy. All companies are like that.

just erase everything on you HDD, and then do a clean install. (google disk cleaner, wiper, write zero, etc.)

or

start the upgrade from vista.
I am pleased that I am not upgrading yet to W7.....seems to give a lot of work and trouble, even tho W7 has got a few things on it that interest me.
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post #11 of 15
11/4/09 at 10:01am
it's really super easy to install. only driver I had to load on both laptops was the marvell wireless driver. of course, just plug in a usb wireless card, connect to windows updates and then it installed it automatically.

super easy and painless if you ask me.
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post #12 of 15
11/4/09 at 2:23pm
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Originally Posted by MichelleG View Post
it's really super easy to install. only driver I had to load on both laptops was the marvell wireless driver. of course, just plug in a usb wireless card, connect to windows updates and then it installed it automatically.

super easy and painless if you ask me.
Hi Michelle, If u say so, but I am going to stay with Vista for a while longer anway. Too much going on at the moment to occupy myself with that. Thanks reply anyway, nice day to you
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post #13 of 15
11/8/09 at 2:42pm
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I gave up on the whole idea. My daughter her omputer has Windows 7 now.

The problem is that a clean install /format etc. doesn't do the trick and I am pretty worried about erasing the Recovery partition aswell as the EISA configuration. Some people mentioned not being able to use their Recovery DVD's after erasing both partitions and I am pretty sure one of them holds the information that won't let me install Windows 7.

I am plannin got use the recovery DVD's on my other laptop that doens't have the EISA configuration and Recovery partition, see what happens.
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post #14 of 15
11/8/09 at 2:44pm
Or get yourself another hard drive.

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post #15 of 15
11/15/09 at 12:16am
I upgraded an 8920G x64 from Vista to Windows 7, but I'd hardly call it painless. In truth now that it's done, I don't think it's worth the trouble. The devil is in the details. I actually upgraded 4 times before I got it right. A lot of work involved in updating drivers, although most worked fine without upgrading. A few really geeky quirks that were repeatable during each upgrade and it took weeks to learn how to fix them properly.

Thank god there is an 8930g, because it has all the Acer Win7 drivers that work perfectly on 8920g. The only trick was running eTechnology Framework in XP SP3 compatibility mode because it doesn't like Windows 7.
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