question about Acer laptops please.....
By BUSSY1979
@BUSSY1979 (1283)
United States
April 20, 2008 2:27am CST
please for once, please do not bash Acer down as being a piece of junk.
for one thing, i'm not after you all for your opinions on what you think about Acers at all. But what i do want to ask is about windows vista on my laptop.
Ok, here goes:
Firstly, i do want to get rid of windows vista from my laptop computer and than put windows XP Pro on it since my friend has the XP Pro cd and than he could install it onto my laptop. Well, We tried to install it, but we never could find out how to get into uninstalling vista from the laptop. We went through two nights of trying to figure it out, and i even went online and googled the topic of what we was wanting to do. I want to get vista off my laptop b/c of alot of programs that i have will not work with Vista. It is not
updated to Vista's OS. I know that i have heard through others on the internet and as well as with my friend's father, that you can uninstall Vista, but you have to re-format the HD. And we tried to do that also and it didn't work out. And so, we've come to the end of the road now, and about ready to give up in trying to uninstall Vista from my laptop. Until i thought about posting this topic here on mylot to see what your all's views are. Have you ever uninstalled Vista from your computer correctly and successfully? And if you have, do you have the Acer Aspire 5315 laptop series? That's what i have and have been trying to get the Vista off of. I hope there are some of you nice ppl here on mylot that could help me out. Any advice will be much appreciated.
Thank you.
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3 responses
@dhangski (3194)
• Philippines
20 Apr 08
I am using ACER Aspire 3680. Mine is Windows Vista too. I have tried to uninstall it but it wasn't successful too. I seek the help of a programmer and he told me that I have to reprogram and reformat my laptop. Then it came to a point that I gave up. Never tried to uninstall again. I just sticked with Windows Vista until now. And never had a problem with it.
@BUSSY1979 (1283)
• United States
20 Apr 08
it seems though that reformatting the HD is a big issue with Acer.
I don't know why, but it is. BTW, did you get a recovery CD with you Acer
laptop? I've wondered this too since i didn't get one when i first purchased mine at the Wal-mart. I opened the box and didn't find the CD,
which i thought was weird. B/c every puter is suppose to have a recovery
CD with it. and i never did recieve mine though in the box.
Thanks dhangski for your info.
@BUSSY1979 (1283)
• United States
21 Apr 08
and also, if yours did come with a CD, i wonder where i could get mine
back from? I NEED THAT D@MN CD BAD!!!LOL it's just one of those
things that a body's gotta have is the CD ROM to their computer.
stupid wal-mart employees might've took it out of there.
or the customer that had it last. D@mn ppl! LOL
seriously though. i've never heard of a puter not having a CD ROM.
@saundyl (9783)
• Canada
21 Apr 08
There are a few ACER laptops with vista as tech i havent been able to "downgrade" to XP. The reason ive found (internet search) is that there is a setting in the chipset you cant change that is supposedly preventing xp from being put on the laptop.
Another reason for issues is....XP doesnt natively recognize SATA harddrives which is what the majority of laptops come with now.
To change that setting you go into the "setup" or "bios" and change the SATA aray from RAID to ide. As a note before allowing the pc to restart AFTER running the setup but before the GUI setup (so between where it reboots) you need to go back into the setup/bios and change the setting back. if you dont its possible that the system will loop in a BSOD
As for acers being junk..i dont agree. I happen to like the quality of the laptop as well as the dealing with the company itself. ACER's arent as proprietary to upgrade parts, more affordable and well we havent had nearly as many lemons of them come through compared to the Toshiba's or dells.
@BUSSY1979 (1283)
• United States
21 Apr 08
thanks for your input there. i will pass it onto my friend, as he knows
all about the computer talk, and i don't, LOL which makes me feel bad
as well. LOL On the contrary though, i do want to thank you as well for
giving Acer a good name also. I've never had no problems with it and it
'has done wonders for me though. Even though i cannot put some of my
old programs on it, it still does great to be an off brand. I really like it,
and would recommend anybody buying an Acer product if they were looking for an inexspensive computer.
Cheers
@zweeb82 (5652)
• Malaysia
22 Apr 08
I agree with saundyl
Go according to what he's said & see whether it works. Yeah, & I'm an Acer supporter as well as I sell them & recommend my customers here
Go according to what he's said & see whether it works. Yeah, & I'm an Acer supporter as well as I sell them & recommend my customers here
@chunter (1758)
• Singapore
20 Apr 08
Its quite simple actually. But first of all, I would need to advise you to download the Windows XP drivers for your Acer Aspire 5315 laptop - audio drivers, graphics etc
Secondly, ensure that your laptop boots the CD/DVD-ROM first. If unsure, when you restart your computer, press the key according to the screen to access the BIOS. Select boot CD/DVD-ROM drive first if available.
Now, insert your Windows XP disc and your Acer laptop should read the disc and ask you to press any key to access the Windows XP installation process.
Select install Operating system and choose to format your drive. If it prompts you to delete the partition, just delete and create new partition. Format in NTFS and install the OS on the partition.
This process should work to install Windows XP Pro on your laptop and remove Windows Vista...
@BUSSY1979 (1283)
• United States
20 Apr 08
hi chunter,
first of all, i think that i should tell you that my friend did insert the xp cd-rom into the laptop's cd/dvd-rom first, and nothing happened.
when he booted back up with the cd in there, it did nothing and just started up normally. Now, i also found on my laptop where you can set how you would want the computer to start up on the system configuration. And it started up the way that i chose it to. but it still didn't read the cd. when he inserted the disk into the computer, he did
all of that there what you said, and it still didn't reformat the hard drive.
i don't know what is with this computer. i've never seen one like it where you cannot reformat your HD. it's beyond me.
But yeah, we did try all of what you said last night, and it didn't work neither.
Thanks for your tips though. the reason why i posted this was to see if
anybody knew another way of doing that, and seeing what they had in mind and to compare it to what we did last night.
