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    Trouble reinstalling Vista to Extensa 5420

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Xenon16, Nov 29, 2010.

  1. Xenon16

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    I had a HD failure and purchased a replacement. I have both the recovery disks and the system disk for the reinstall of Vista, but I get an error upon running that "no partition is available."

    I've been looking for a solution for a while. What I have come up with so far is that the recovery disks will not create a partition needed for the install (which is the craziest thing I've heard in a while). So I went out and downloaded DiskFormatDT_V1-1D.iso. This wouldn't run from a USB drive so I burned to CD.

    Now I cannot get the formatter to run? What gives? I've set it to boot first from CD drive, but only get the same error "no operating system found"

    Any advice will be much appreciated (other than buy a new computer or avoid Vista, I know this already)
     
    Xenon16, Nov 29, 2010
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