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Would you Please just do what I told you in post #207 so you can get done.
This thread is only two days old and is circling the drain.
I would like to point out something from my previously deleted post in this thread.
I think a pace needs to be set here, it is obvious that steps need to be spoonfed instead of the barrage that are otherwise commonplace in the threads here.
I think a step should be given and ONLY when a confirmation of that step has returned should the next step be given.
Obviously everyone is just trying to help but I think there are too many cooks.
If one person can take the lead so to speak and keep this thread on track there may be success yet.
I know it`s only 2 days old, it was a joke.
I`ve taken the lead again, Thank you
But he`s done for the nite.
I totally agree, when he has finished doing what I asked in post #207, and reports back success then we can get rolling.
Oh, it might just probably mean the difference between working and not working.
The DVD approach has been suggested numerous times at the beginning pages of this thread. You must set your DVD drive as FIRST boot priority in your BIOS before you mount your Win7 DVD onto the tray. Have you successfully modified your boot priorities to CD/DVD-ROM?
You have 2 ways to go about the DVD method:
1) Use the pre-packaged Windows 7 Upgrade disc for a clean install (tutorial)
2) Use a downloaded genuine Windows 7 ISO
It is one or the other.
Learning how to burn onto discs is still an indispensable knowledge. If the USB route has consistently failed, you try another approach. We cannot expect successful results from the same failed process, ayt?
Goodluck, OP. :)
Okay, will do.
This PC came with Windows Vista. The COA sticker reads Windows Vista. The PC came with an ACER Windows 7 upgrade disc. If you are asking which version of Windows the upgrade disk was, it was a Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade. This is a 64bit machine. Acer Aspire M3202.
I thought it was interesting; whenever I had the upgrade disk loaded earlier and the upgrade wizard prompted me to select the make and model number of my pc there were no available downloads available for the M3202. And I'm quite certain whenever I first upgraded this pc there was an M3202 download available.
I'll try it your way in the morning, but if that don't work I think I should run out and grab some DVD's.
Thanks for all your help.
I have tried making 1st device CD/DVD and making my 2nd device my harddrive, but the way my BIOS is set up no matter what I do (pressing +/-) whenever I change my 1st device to CD/DVD it always puts my Hard drive last at #3. Not unless there is some other way to toggle them in the correct order.
Using a dvd is the easiest way to install windows, well it will be for you
You`ve got to get your hard drive to 2 on the list, keep trying, just highlite it and move it to 2nd then save the changes and exit out of the bios.
Answer me this.... When you dropped the upgrade disc in, do you get "Press any Key To Boot from DVD" on the screen ?
I just hope you will be able to use the upgrade key with your Windows 7 Upgrade disc to activate windows, I will pm Greg.
Once you have exhausted all means with the USB method with no success, you might want to start a new thread for the DVD method. Whether by Upgrade disc or by downloaded ISO, we will help you anew from there.
But he has to have a good iso properly burned to the flash drive or a dvd before we can do anything.
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