bjefferies
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Hi everyone! I decided to head to my local PC store today and treated myself a new Acer M51BC.
Everything was pretty much what I wanted, with the exception of an SSD. I figured that would be no issue as I'd stick my old SSD in there and reinstall.
Now, today I decided to create the recovery USB in Windows, put an old SATA drive I had in as a test and re-installed Windows 8. It ran perfectly and before I knew it I had Windows 8 up and running.
Now, I decide to use the SSD since I knew what I was doing, this is where my problems start.
I still have the USB in the computer, and everything is exactly the same before with the exception that this SSD still has my Win 7 OS on it. I guess there is a chance the Windows 7 installation may be causing issues, which is why I mention it, Maybe I need to put it back in the old PC and format before I do this?
Anyway, here's why it's not working. When I go to 'Reset your PC' I get the same options as before, However this time I'm told 'Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing.'
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Updated:
Since I can open a command prompt, I have been trying to look online at how I can see how Windows can view the disk,
From Command Prompt, I typed in diskpart, then list disk.
I get:
Disc 0 - Online - 223GB
Disk 1,2,3,4,5 - No Media - 0B
Disk 6 - Online - 14GB
Edit:
If I do 'sel dis 0' followed by 'list par'
I get:
Partition 1 - 100MB - Offset 1024kb
Partition 2 - 223GB - Offset 101MB
I hope this is of some relevance!
Everything was pretty much what I wanted, with the exception of an SSD. I figured that would be no issue as I'd stick my old SSD in there and reinstall.
Now, today I decided to create the recovery USB in Windows, put an old SATA drive I had in as a test and re-installed Windows 8. It ran perfectly and before I knew it I had Windows 8 up and running.
Now, I decide to use the SSD since I knew what I was doing, this is where my problems start.
I still have the USB in the computer, and everything is exactly the same before with the exception that this SSD still has my Win 7 OS on it. I guess there is a chance the Windows 7 installation may be causing issues, which is why I mention it, Maybe I need to put it back in the old PC and format before I do this?
Anyway, here's why it's not working. When I go to 'Reset your PC' I get the same options as before, However this time I'm told 'Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing.'
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Updated:
Since I can open a command prompt, I have been trying to look online at how I can see how Windows can view the disk,
From Command Prompt, I typed in diskpart, then list disk.
I get:
Disc 0 - Online - 223GB
Disk 1,2,3,4,5 - No Media - 0B
Disk 6 - Online - 14GB
Edit:
If I do 'sel dis 0' followed by 'list par'
I get:
Partition 1 - 100MB - Offset 1024kb
Partition 2 - 223GB - Offset 101MB
I hope this is of some relevance!
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