Acer laptop Win 7 Ultimate x64 OEM, how to clean install without disk?

torchwood said:

Hi Silver,
The Toshiba key may work, when you enter it, it will more than likely tell you to activate via phone, and if you get a nice operater at the MS end.
Does that lappy have any sticker on the bottom, if it has a W8 logo style sticker roughly postage stamp size then you'll be able to upgrade to 10 no problem.
Acer does not allow W8 downgrade to W7

that Acer prog should be the launch manager, my bad.

Roy

Thanks Roy, I might give that a try before I part with my 50 smackers, I will just have my system image and repair disk at the ready in case I don't get such a nice operator at the MS end...any tips to soft soaping the nice operator, apart from telling him/her that they are a nice operator and they should kindly activate it?!
That lappy, sadly has no sticker at all, at least not on the outside, but I'm going to check inside the battery compartment if I can find a screwdriver to fit. If at all, I am expecting a Win 7 sticker, as that's what the current installation is.

Thanks for the Acer launch manager tip.

silverfx, as far as having a sob story for the operator at MS, try the line about "My Mom gave me this when she bought a new machine and somebody else along the way had installed this OS". Just an idea, not saying that will work.

Thanks Layback, I think I may be talking to Acer Support soon, as per my reply in the other thread.

cyclops said:

silverfx, as far as having a sob story for the operator at MS, try the line about "My Mom gave me this when she bought a new machine and somebody else along the way had installed this OS". Just an idea, not saying that will work.

I like your line of thought. I might just tell them the truth as per the other thread, it's a good enough sob story.