minuteman263 0 Newbie Poster

One of our Acer machines at work somehow lost it's mind overnight. This morning somehow when it was booted, the recovery software came to life and it started doing a recovery from the hidden partition. It loaded the files ok, but when it came to the update section it didn't get very far and hung with a box that said Windows not loaded. reboot to begin setup (or something similar). It will just repeat this over and over. I took the drive out and looked inside with a usb adaptor and the origional files are still there and not overwritten. I used a windows disk to repair the boot. Still no go. Is there any way to reverse, or to get it unstuck. I tried a lot of things and nothing seemed to work.