Please Help

Alright so I have an acer aspire with windows home 32 bit and made a backup when I first got it and got 3 discs from it. I wanted to reformat it with them tonight and went to do it, first disc worked fine it deleted the partition and started formating. I put the second disc in and it never went past one certain file and stayed at 70%. So I ended up putting the first one back in and restarted thinking to try again but now it just shows a full bar right away saying windows is loading the files(black screen) but never goes past that to the actual formatting part like before. I tried the repair disc thats online but theres nothing to repair. Everything got deleted when I got a little ways the first time. I can access the Bios tho by hitting F2. If anyone could possibly help me with this it would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.

Hello dthrag and welcome to Seven Forums.

It sounds like one or more of the recovery disks you made didn't burn correctly so that effectively makes the entire 3 disk set worthless. But you may have a hidden recovery partition on your hard drive if this was a new computer with factory installed Windows 7. On most Aspire computers you would restart your machine and click Alt + F10 at the same time. This should start the recovery process. You should then be prompted to enter six zeros (type in 000000) as a security step. Finally, you should then see a screen prompting you to select your operating system.

If you don't have a recovery partition I think the only other thing you could try is get a friend's installation disk (it must be the exact same version that is on your machine) and do a clean install. You would activate your machine with the original product key. If you can't find someone with an installation disk you could probably make your own by downloading a Windows 7 ISO file to your desktop and then burning it to a DVD. You could Google My Digital Life Windows 7 ISO for example as they are official distributors of Microsoft products. Again, make sure you get the specific Windows 7 version on your machine.