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    Vista error (what's new) 0x80300001

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by babiesinbondage, Oct 13, 2012.

  1. babiesinbondage

    babiesinbondage Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought a laptop the other day. I was able to get it for dirt cheap because he had an ungenuine copy of Windows 7 installed.
    It's a Aspire 6930. It had a Vista OEM product key, so I decided to reinstall the original O.S.
    Now I'm trying to install Windows Vista and it says "Windows cannot be installed on this drive error: 0x80300001"

    -I already deleted the partitions for the illegitimate Windows and made a brand new partition.
    -It's the only hard disk in the laptop
    -I'm not using any extra driver CD.
     
    babiesinbondage, Oct 13, 2012
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  2. lloco73

    lloco73 Notebook Consultant

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    do you have recovery dvd's?
    have you tried alt+F10 on post? if you didn't erase the recovery partition you might have lucky.
    Download the acer mbr and try to copy it to your hdd. For this you can use a winpe usb
     
    lloco73, Nov 13, 2012
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