Revo rl80 disk error

[darkstar]

Just bought one off ebuyer and not knowing much about how to put windows on it gave it to a mate to try..

All that happens is when windows installs right at the end it throws out disc error ..installing it from USB tried lots of different versions ..
any clue to what doing wrong ?

[evilsatan]

Sounds like you are using a corrupted image of the windows installer or the hard drive is knackered mate. Can you download windows 7 from the clean sources posted on here in the windows 7 section sticky and try that?

[darkstar]

Will give it a go thanks mat

[n00bz0rd2]

Checking the hard drive for errors is also worth a shot. Usually, if you know the manufacturer of the hard drive, you can get programs that you can boot from and check the drive for any errors.

[darkstar]

Just bought it so has only got free dos on it and I am not good at all at this side of tech so that's why give some one ago of putting windows on it and it still cocks up ???

[evilsatan]

Insert Windows DVD, boot to that DVD and follow the instructrions to install Win 7. When you are presented with the HDD partitions you can delete all of them, click the unpartitioned space and click next and it will install the OS for you. The problem may be a partition was left for FreeDOS, delete them all and try that.

[darkstar]

There are 2 partions mate one with free dos 3.8 gig the rest hard drive space no DVD drive so doing it from usb

[darkstar]

So the problem might be its trying to install to the 3.8 partition?

[n00bz0rd2]

My machine at work had FreeDOS on it. I just removed it completely but doing what evilsatan mentioned above. Do that first and try installing Windows.

[evilsatan]

Click the partition then click delete at the bottom, do this for both partitions so there is just one item in the list that says unpartitioned space, click on this then click next and Windows will do the rest for you mate.

[darkstar]

Thanks for your help chaps it was the partition cheers evilsatan for pointing that out now just to sort drivers out for it as the acer site only does win 8 drivers ?? and a key gen for win 7 as the one in win 7 section is long gone

[evilsatan]

Use Slimdrivers or Driverupdater and it should find you the required drivers mate. Windows loader by Daz was a good activator, assume it still is.