Thank you, my friend, but I'am not having such a smooth experience as you wish i were. I'am very discouraged with my ability to mechanize this simple and easy procedure everyone on planet earth can do blindfolded,backwards except me! I in no way, am discontented with any of my new friends here, who have diligently and graciously donated time and experience to help me through this, because, perhaps i have failed to describe the exact situation at hand clearly enough and without the ability to show data facts as they come to me, I may not have expressed the details of error as needed. I apologize and will diligently focus on recapping the history up to this point, so as to make clear the events as they did unfold for me in this disaster
The early parts will be brief, but needed for my sake. My acer aspire 5733z was fine when I left it running, my son and friend attempt to optimize,(GRRR!), I come back and try to log into my user profile. It will not allow login, with several attempts, I manage to boot safe with network, find that most services were stopped and would not start. I followed online help from different computer concerning mine. The jest of it was to hide microsoft service, turn all others off and cipher through them to find error. That was the last time I actually got past repair start up. After long time, start up repair declares it can not help. Refers me to administrator or manufacture for help.The best I can get out of the boys, is that they remember a page they had changed regarding values of an unpopulated service, not sure which. They populate(whatever that means I wish I knew) and exit. Boob-head (son's friend) assures me it can't be that!
I post to tweaking for help. I have had a new, unused in the package HHD, 500 gb hard drive directly sent to me from acer over problems on same model laptop we never used again. It is WD blue scorpion, 500 gb, and clearly states instructions for vista and xp, but windows 7 is ready as is, I have yet to see it work. To do acer recovery and set to new factory settings, it says to remove files before recovery, then loops back through same pages with no options. So, I put back the damaged HHD as shane ask to do, I follow his outline burn iso disk and attempt the drivers by using diff computer downloading what acer just calls drivers for my model, then put them on dvd. I get through to "install where" page and this is what was there. windows page. Now, on that page, 3 items came up. #1(at top) was Disk 0 Partition 1 :PQSERVICE. Total size > 18.0 GB, free space > 6.3 GB, and Type > OEM (Reserved). # 2 (middle) was Disk 0 partition 2. Total space > 100.0 MB, Free space > 86.0 MB, Type > Primary. # 3 was Disk 0 Partition 3 Total space > 100.0 MB, Free space > 86.0 MB, Type > system. Then Disk 0 Partition 4 Totalspace > 447.6 GB, Free space > 447.6 GB, Type > Primary. I hope this makes sense to you. They were in columns, so i used the > sign to separate. I used advance option and deleted all one at a time. I click next and it says that is all the information needed at this time. The install seems to be working and gets to the point where it says set up is starting services, for a long time, about 16 hours later it reboots and ask for any key to do so, well I think now that i was suppose to let it boot through by itself, but did not know any better, so I start it over ( 3 times) and I be thinking it is just going to loop me to death, when it pops up a screen saying windows can not load due to error. Windows boot manager states File: \Windows\system32\winload.exe could not load. Application is missing or corrupt. Status: 0xc000000f. It stops there and I can not seem to boot the iso disk anymore.
I thought all had changed for the better when I found the acer recovery disk pack. I started the Acer Recovery Management (v8.0.8) and went to factory reset with disk. I ran it twice only to be stopped completely at 61% overall progress and 14% copying files, exactly the same twice, then says Restore failed-error code= 0x17(data error(cyclic redundancy check).). I was on disk #2 recovery. I found this OS called Ubuntu 13 and i'am using it on my laptop to write this with that OS on a disk I burned. I truly do want my windows 7 back if at all possible. I will now probably lie awake in bed rewriting all of this in my head better and better each time only for me to read. HA!
I hope this reaches you in good health and good spirits, Thank You
P.S. I forgot to mention about the audio. It did not work what so ever from the beginning of me trying to sign in. Don't know if that helps, but I thought it strange at the time.
