Completed
Just finalizing this issue. Installation with the recovery disks from Acer and a new hard drive completed the process. The issue with the system not seeing the battery after I did the installation was resolved when I closed the system back up after testing. Must be some type of issue...
Thanks
Thanks for all your help. I'll continue the update process, making restore points along the way and then hopefully will be able to restore the data backups.
Yes, if I do one at a time they work. There were approx 78; I've done about 6, some required reboot, others did not. Rebooted system and everything appears to be working. The majority of the updates are MS .net Framework 3.5 on W8 and Wserver 2012 for x64. Could I just try to find a complete...
After the second restore that is what i did. It was not successful when I manually checked only three of the possible updates. It downloaded them, attempted the install, then indicated failure, but was able to revert back successfully. System works, but without the updates.
received distribution disks
I've received the dist disks purchased from Acer (~$20.00). One system disk, three recovery disks and a language disk. I successfully installed W8 on the REPLACEMENT drive and started to re-configure apps and site logins. System appears to be running fine.
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update
Just letting you know I've ordered the recovery disks from Acer and waiting on delivery. I will be creating a new system disk and let you know the status.
Thanks.
Tom
Yes, time is an issue.
I did the SMART option on Seagate's Seatool and there were no errors. The Seatool long test is where the app came back indicating failure. I've got a new drive in there, but the recovery app on the external drive is not successful as noted above. I don't want to try to...
My system started pausing/freezing, log files showing some errors about not finding some *.dll files. The system will still boot; I enabled the administrator account, but have lost the original user profile. All the docs/files are still there in the usual c:\users\username\... directories...