Solved Should I Do a Clean Install?

[Jesse Williams]

Yes, I believe so. Is that a problem? But, I disabled the Dual Boot configuration, so I wouldn't have to keep choosing an OS to continue.

 

[gregrocker]

Then there's no point in having the useless Recovery partition which boots into a Win7 disk anyway, because you can't boot it if Win7 fails to start. You'd need to use F8 or the Win7 disk or Repair CD.

If I were you I'd delete the useless System Reserved and Recovery partitons which you made and ignore the 15gb until your disk fills up and its needed which is unlikely.

 

[Jesse Williams]

Okay. I will do that. Just choose, delete volume?

 

[gregrocker]

Yes, then reboot to make sure that Boot Menu has gone away. You can delete the unneeded Recovery partition from Dual Boot menu in msconfig>Boot if it doesn't go away when deleted. But don't delete the Win7 listing or it won't boot.

 

[Jesse Williams]

I will do it when I get home. I'm working on my grandmother's computer. I can't get her screensaver to work. It's set to come on in 30 minutes. She has Windows XP.

 

[Jesse Williams]

Okay. Got that done to my computer successfully.

 

[Jesse Williams]

Greg, is my computer messed up? I meant to ask you. It's running fine.

 

[gregrocker]

How would I know? :huh: You're the one using it. I've told you the standard to measure by is if it's always instantaneous and never hangs.

Post another screenshot of Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

 

[Jesse Williams]

Okay. I will when I get home. I'm in church right now. I did what you said to do. It still has the recovery options.

 

[Jesse Williams]

Computer Management

 

[gregrocker]

It's fine. Now leave it alone and don't make any changes or use any tools not suggested in Clean Up Factory Bloatware and Clean Reinstall Windows 7 because only then can you be assured of maintaining best performance.

 

[Jesse Williams]

Okay. I will let alone!

 

[Jesse Williams]

Greg, you ought to be proud of me. I did a Clean Install. Thanks to Acer Backup Manager, it also let me backup my drivers to a disk. So, its finished. I did it a couple of days ago, and so far no problems except for an update that wouldn't install that was already installed.

 

[gregrocker]

What is Acer Backup Manager and how did it work exactly? I don't recommend most backup managers because they can lose files. Did you get yours all replaced? How did you back up using only OneDrive?

Are you sure you didn't run Acer Factory Recovery instead of doing a Clean Reinstall following the steps in my tutorial?

Look at Control Panel>System. Is there an Acer logo, and what does it say at the bottom about Activation?

 

[Jesse Williams]

Acer Backup Manager just backs up all of the drivers to a disk. Yes, everything was recovered. I didn't use One Drive, just backed up all of my drivers to a disk so that I could recover them. Also, the Acer logo still pops up on boot. I am looking to see about the logo now.

 

[Jesse Williams]

The Acer logo isn't on there, but it does say that Windows is activated. I used my Product Key.

 

[gregrocker]

I would not have reimported the old install's drivers.

This is why the driver steps in Clean Reinstall are printed in red, so you can't miss them. Did you follow those steps, Jesse?

How is overall performance compared to previous install?

 

[Jesse Williams]

It's doing fine. I followed the steps in the Clean Install tutorial.

 

[ThrashZone]

Also, the Acer logo still pops up on boot. I am looking to see about the logo now.

That's a normal bios flash screen so I've been told by Greg in the past
Black screen with the Acer logo and showing F12... ?

 

[Jesse Williams]

Also, the Acer logo still pops up on boot. I am looking to see about the logo now.

That's a normal bios flash screen so I've been told by Greg in the past
Black screen with the Acer logo and showing F12... ?

No. It just has the normal Acer BIOS flash screen. Then, at the bottom it says to press F2 to boot into the BIOS. I have already tried F8 and that still works. So, to me it looks as if everything is checking out good with this install. The only problem that I noticed was an update for IE 11 that wants to install, but is already installed. I have a thread already posted and solved for that.