I have a Media Center PC an Acepc T11 (came with Win 10 Pro), which worked great out of the box connected to a TCL 4K TV via HDMI. Except the pointer was so small I could barely see it across the room. My laptop has Win 10 Home and both the pointer size and color are adjustable. So I installed...
Re-installed Win 10, this time from the windows iso on a USB drive. This time I checked that my HDD was there, it was.
Don't know why I have to install windows twice?
Success . . . But!!!
I can't see the HDD when I boot from the SSD. If I boot from the HDD I can see the SSD. Tried diskpart > list disk and the HDD does not appear.
Had this problem when I first installed the SSD, solved by reinstalling Windows. PITA
Success !!!
I reinstalled the latest Acer BIOS (which isn't BIOS) it was already on my HDD. Then inserted the Recovery USB, set Boot to the USB, booted and waited. Hung at 77% for at least 5-min, then proceeded to install Win 10.
Now I have weeks worth of work to get Windows were I had it...
That supports my belief that Windows updates would have no problem messing with UEFI, all for the greater good of course. ;) ;)
If BIOS doesn't exist, then the Acer BIOS upgrade/patch is in fact a UEFI upgrade, yes?
I opened regedit today and added a line for NO AUTOMATIC WINDOWS UPDATES...
Oh didn't know that. What is the practical implication in this context?
Yes, when I boot from the HDD. File mgr sees the SSD, opened it and saw many Win OS files and a 4.7GB Win iso. Also inserted it into a M.2 USB box and had no trouble reading everything.
Perhaps I should format the SSD in...
Tried that at least twice in the past weeks, failed ~75%. No clue why. Also downloaded a Win 10 iso onto a USB, that also failed.
Seems I should reinstall BIOS to eliminate any Win 10 upgrade crud.
Can't say yes, not sure I know how to set uefi to default.
What I know and think I know: I did F9 in BIOS, that resets the BIOS in an ACER to default. My guess is that doing F9 also brought up Windows Boot Manager which is set to the HDD by default. So when I reinstalled the HDD after F9, WBM...
I spent the last 10-days trying to use the Dell How-to. Got as far as Fixboot > Access Denied. Tried to understand the Access Denied video you linked, didn't happen.
Long-Short:
Today I was on the Acer forum and the replier asked me to install the HDD and post a pic of the BIOS > Boot screen...
Thanks for the reply.
This is an Acer laptop with a Intel i3. It came with a 1TB HDD. I upgraded it in July to add the M.2 and 16GB RAM. This is the M.2: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TYGQJ45/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
After the upgrade I would use the F12 BIOS...
So how could enabling F12 cause this? All I did was enable F12 > F10 > Enter. Then No bootable drives. Then I disabled F12 > F10 > Enter, still no bootable drives.
How could something so simple brick my laptop?
How might I acquire and install a current AHCI driver on either my HDD and/or a M.2 SSD without Windows? I can "talk" to my HDD by inserting it into a USB enclosure and read the files, all seems well. If I can get the HDD booting, I should be able to read/write to the M.2 in the laptop.
My...
Will not Boot from either drive!
Apparently a Win 10 update gave me the big shaft,
Tried to boot from the HDD via F12 at boot, no go. Opened BIOS, F12 disabled. Enabled F12 in BIOS and from that point on the Acer would NOT boot. Nothing I did in BIOS helped. Neither the SSD or HDD would boot...
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