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Vista 32bit to Win 7 64 bit issue
I have an Acer 4520 with the Turion 64 X2 2.2 Ghz processor and 3Gb Ram. I have attempted to instal both Win7 64 bit and XP and neither will be accepted.
The error shows a incompatible floater stating cannot run 64 bit and has quit the process. There is nothing in BIOS that allows me to boot from CD or Flash drive.
in the XP case, the Install Windows XP screen is greyed out.
To give more info, During update install of Vista ( the laptop is brand new) it had a crash, and it seems I lost all of my accounts, except for the one I made during initial setup, which says administrator, but the computer does not recognize it as one.
It appears something could have been botched during update or initial setup. Acer did not include the Restore disk, and it appears I have no permissions. It even has C: restricited as no access. I also gets lots of invalid processes, Event viewer will not even load showing an error.
Any Ideas to how I can wipe this hard drive? I have found absolutely no options or permissions to do it. I hope I dont have to remove the HDD and put it on a Certifier to force format it as I am thinking its dead out of the water, and only having about 1 hour actual operating time. *Sad
Thanks in advance.
-Tim