Missy Vixen
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Id like to start of by going ahead and admitting i was an idiot for doing what i did, Give a little bit of a back story etc.
I had been dual booting between Linux Mint 16 and Windows 7 x64 Ultimate in the following partition scheme on my
Acer Aspire AO756 1.4Ghz Celeron Processor, 4GB ram, 320gb HDD. (shipped with windows 7 HP)
All Primary partitions:
{sda1 Windows Boot Loader}{sda2 Windows 7} {sda3 Storage (NTFS)}{sda4 Linux Mint 16}
I managed to somehow get a virus under windows and after failing to weed it out i just formatted the partition SDA1 and SDA2 and reloaded grub : all was well at this point.
Then i got the crazy idea to try out Windows 8.1 since you can still do the 30 day evaluation, and since shortly after i bought my PC, they started shipping out the 'same' (ive found out it had a different BIOS and Processor) model with windows 8 and when i type in my serial on the Acer website for drivers, it brings up Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 drivers. Just to see if it was indeed faster on my acer. THIS proved to be a bad idea as i did not know about the secure boot implementation in windows 8.1. I had tried the RTM test build of 8 a while back and it was not impressive enough to keep. However i had hopes for 8.1. It installed fine and dandy, but during the install sequence it needs you to reboot. When the PC rebooted it could not find any bootable partitions on the drive. I hard rebooted and Hit f12 to get to the Boot selection in the bios and lo and behold there was EFI Boot Partition for windows, Selected that and it booted and continued the set up procedure.
After using it for a few minutes, i started to collect my drivers, only to find out the GPU driver did not work on windows8 for my integrated intel card... Meaning i had terrible tearing and artifacts, moving windows or watching movies would give you a head ache etc.
So i tried to REMOVE windows 8.1 and reload windows 7, simple procedure right ? WRONG
Ive formatted, even zeroed out the HDD over and over again.
No bootable device found error every time
I cannot boot from the Windows 7 Disk via USB CD drive, i cannot boot from a USB key made with it either.
I can only boot the windows 8.1 key i made, or Ubuntu in EFI mode.
If i install ubuntu, it still wont boot right away, and i have to go to f12, select the efi boot Ubuntu Selection etc.
There are no secure boot, or efi options in my bios, and i think that Secure Boot is whats locking me out of fixing my own pc >< What gives ?
I thaught maybe it wrote something to the BIOS (odd as that sounds, i figured i had nothing to loose) So i reinstalled windows 8.1 (cause thats the only damn thing i can actually install anymore) and reflashed the BIOS version 1.09 from Acer thinking that would help...
Still a no go, Im at whits end, with a Brick....
So im having to sit here and type this out on an old, barely fuctioning ibook, hopeing that someone out there knows something... Google has turned up very little other than "congratulations on your new paperweight courtesy of windows 8.1"
I had been dual booting between Linux Mint 16 and Windows 7 x64 Ultimate in the following partition scheme on my
Acer Aspire AO756 1.4Ghz Celeron Processor, 4GB ram, 320gb HDD. (shipped with windows 7 HP)
All Primary partitions:
{sda1 Windows Boot Loader}{sda2 Windows 7} {sda3 Storage (NTFS)}{sda4 Linux Mint 16}
I managed to somehow get a virus under windows and after failing to weed it out i just formatted the partition SDA1 and SDA2 and reloaded grub : all was well at this point.
Then i got the crazy idea to try out Windows 8.1 since you can still do the 30 day evaluation, and since shortly after i bought my PC, they started shipping out the 'same' (ive found out it had a different BIOS and Processor) model with windows 8 and when i type in my serial on the Acer website for drivers, it brings up Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 drivers. Just to see if it was indeed faster on my acer. THIS proved to be a bad idea as i did not know about the secure boot implementation in windows 8.1. I had tried the RTM test build of 8 a while back and it was not impressive enough to keep. However i had hopes for 8.1. It installed fine and dandy, but during the install sequence it needs you to reboot. When the PC rebooted it could not find any bootable partitions on the drive. I hard rebooted and Hit f12 to get to the Boot selection in the bios and lo and behold there was EFI Boot Partition for windows, Selected that and it booted and continued the set up procedure.
After using it for a few minutes, i started to collect my drivers, only to find out the GPU driver did not work on windows8 for my integrated intel card... Meaning i had terrible tearing and artifacts, moving windows or watching movies would give you a head ache etc.
So i tried to REMOVE windows 8.1 and reload windows 7, simple procedure right ? WRONG
Ive formatted, even zeroed out the HDD over and over again.
No bootable device found error every time
I cannot boot from the Windows 7 Disk via USB CD drive, i cannot boot from a USB key made with it either.
I can only boot the windows 8.1 key i made, or Ubuntu in EFI mode.
If i install ubuntu, it still wont boot right away, and i have to go to f12, select the efi boot Ubuntu Selection etc.
There are no secure boot, or efi options in my bios, and i think that Secure Boot is whats locking me out of fixing my own pc >< What gives ?
I thaught maybe it wrote something to the BIOS (odd as that sounds, i figured i had nothing to loose) So i reinstalled windows 8.1 (cause thats the only damn thing i can actually install anymore) and reflashed the BIOS version 1.09 from Acer thinking that would help...
Still a no go, Im at whits end, with a Brick....
So im having to sit here and type this out on an old, barely fuctioning ibook, hopeing that someone out there knows something... Google has turned up very little other than "congratulations on your new paperweight courtesy of windows 8.1"
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- OSX 10.6.8
- Computer type
- Laptop