Operating system not found
Hello,
I replaced the hard drive on a Acer Aspire V5-571 due to the old one crashed and couldn’t boot anymore. It was a windows 8 but i installed a hard drive that has windows 7 installed on it. Now when i’m trying to boot, i just get the message “operating system not found”. I can’t seem to get it into bios or anything.
Hernando
Is this a good question?
You should still be able to boot into the BIOS. It should be F2 while booting to enter the BIOS on an Acer I believe.
by smartin
I keep pressing F2 while booting but right after the ACER logo it beeps once and then the same message appears.
by Hernando Berg
This sounds like a classic corrupt BIOS. Do you know if a BIOS update was attempted at all?
by smartin
there was no bios update attempted. But it was being reset to factory settings and half way through, the power was disconnected by accident and from there on the hard drive did not boot anymore. It just got stuck on a message that said something about repairing windows but it stayed stucked there. It was a windows 8. So i installed a new hard drive with windows 7.
by Hernando Berg
Gotcha. Well if I had to throw out a nice educated guess I would say it's a corrupt BIOS.
by smartin
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