Recent content by km1975

SIW2 and Saltgrass: many thanks to you!!! So this is the happy end of the story. First, I experimented with the Partition Guru, without much success. Then I exactly followed your advice with the BCDboot command. In the command prompt (Windows 8 recovery mode) I assigned letter "S" to the ESP...

Yes, I have exactly this Acer Aspire all-in-one 5600U. The model P/N is DQ.SNEER003. When I was ordering this Acer, the vendor in their website claimed that the HDD is 1000GB. After purchase was made, I discovered that it was 500GB not 1000GB. I decided to return the Acer, and the vendor...

Thanks SIW2! The command you have provided is for formatting the ESP partition, isn't it? Will you be so kind to also explain how to recreate Windows boot files using bcdboot?

I have installed the Partition Guru. Renamed 'fedora' folder in EFI to 'fed-efi'. No effect. Still Grub appears at start and offers to boot either Fedora or Windows. Looks like clean install is the only effective option (?) but I am afraid to make a mistake...

Hi SIW2 and thanks for your input! Yes, I agree that for me, wiping the disk is somewhat challenging. I am not exactly sure how can I look at the EFI system partition. This is a part of the output from 'bcdedit /enum firmware' (sorry some text is in Russian): -------------------- identifyer...

Excuse me theog, just a quick question. If I do a recovery USB disk now, will my ACER recovery facility produce a truly "clean" Windows installation? I am actually afraid it will write Grub again to the USB recovery disk. What do you think? Thanks in advance!

Thank you theog! I've never done this, so I will carefully look through the instruction. Windows 8 requires a 16 GB USB for a recovery disk, they don't supply it with the new PC (at least in Russia). So I'll have to buy one tomorrow and will keep you updated on the outcome.

Hello everyone! Though this issue has been discussed already here, I've been unable to solve this puzzle for the last two days. So, I have a new ACER Aspire 5600U all-in-one with Windows 8 pre-installed, Intel core i5 3230M, RAM 4 GB DDR3. For some reason I decided to return this PC to the...