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    acer aspire 5738ZG OS problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by letsplay14me, Oct 4, 2009.

  1. letsplay14me

    letsplay14me Newbie

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    Hello,
    I just bought a laptop (acer aspire 5738ZG) and i've been having some problems installing windows vista. When I first turned on the laptop a windows vista home edition installation started. There was no dvd in it, it was something like acer recovery (i don't remember exactly). I didn't want vista home edition, so I cancelled the installation. I inserted the Vista Ultimate DVD and I couldn't install it. The error message is "Windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed". I tried again to install Vista Ultimate, but this error kept appearing. So I removed the vista ultimate dvd and restarted the laptop. The vista home edition installation appeared again but it too encountered an error message ("Fail to get image's DAT file.").
    I could really use some help please, I don't know what to do.
    Thank you

    edit: I also tried installing windows xp and got a blue screen error..
     
    letsplay14me, Oct 4, 2009
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  2. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Windows XP would most likely lack the Sata drivers.

    Now I find it really strange that it would start to instal Vista Home when you turn it on.
    Or do you mean configure?

    On that note, a Vista Utimate disc should work "no matter what" given that the computer is vista capable and no hardware is damaged.
     
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  3. letsplay14me

    letsplay14me Newbie

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    i succeeded in installing windows 7.. and i'm pretty sure i can install vista now if I want. But maybe I'll stick to windows 7 at least for a couple of days to see weather i like it or not.
    I have another problem, I hope I can post it here..
    I have on another laptop a hard drive of 500 GB on windows vista ultimate. When I installed vista on it I forgot to make 2 partitions so I made a 500 gb partition, which i don't like. I had ~80 GB used out of 500. Using vista's computer management I've managed to create a partition of ~140 GB, from the free space of the 500 GB partiton. I don't understand why it won't let me create a 350 GB partition, since there was about 400 GB free... Anyway, now I have a 300 GB partition with 100 GB used and windows vista ultimate on it and a 140 GB partition with 50 GB used. How can I make the windows partition of 150 GB and the second one from 140 into ~300 without having to reinstall windows / format ? Vista's computer management doesn't let me do this, i don't know why exactly.
    Hope you can help me..
    Thank you
     
    letsplay14me, Oct 4, 2009
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  4. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I think your proble is caused by the MFT (Master file table) - you'd need to move that...
     
    DetlevCM, Oct 4, 2009
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