Recent content by rickbolinski

Ok, shall do, but I think the problem was the wrong OS. It should be Vista so when I can find a copy of Vista Home Premium I will give it a shot first. thanks

I agree, this is whats annoying, a workable laptop, legal key but cant seem to use it, so yes I need to hunt down Acer people to see what can be done. If that partition is gone then i am hooped anyways right.

It has a partition that has a file called USER PC which may be the recovery but when I use repair/f10 it dosent recognize it. I think your right about contacting Acer but I am not the original owner.

Hello, I have an Acer that had Microsoft home Premium on it but no disks. I had to re install so I used the key that is on the sticker under the laptop but after installation I got the message that it wasn't the right key. So i followed the prompts that led me to a phone call to activate by...

Thanks Mike, the CCleaner worked and removed that entry. Currently i am running a registry repair program just in case and another reply has another idea on a repair install. Woops, its back. What is that thing? I installed the windows 7 using upgrade and it worked but i still cant get a read...

I am running sfc /scannow now so we will see but i have noticed a file in my startup that is not famaliar called Hvsisp.exe and i cant remove it. It is in App\Data\Roaming. Now I may have a program that uses this but the details say Unknown and up to now i have been able to remove all start...

Yes it is the original install disks that I created from the Gateway recovery when I purchased it and also have tried several ISO and an xp disk and they all stop AFTER the files are copied and the when it re boots and says windows is setting up that's as far as it goes using a custom/reformat...

I am trying to install my windows 7 and it wont complete the setup. After all the files load from my original disks, the computer restarts and starts the setup but its been a blank screen for over 2 hours now and still nothing. I can use the restore from an image file and it sets up in 30...