[access-uk] Re: clean install problem.
- From: Peter Holdstock <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:19:20 +0000
Hi, a couple of things to mention.
1. I think to get to the boot sequence menu you press F11 at initial turn on
and keep tapping it until it comes up. Not sure if it's a different key for
different manufacturers but I don't think so. You can then choose which
device to boot from (but if it's at the top of the list anyway that
shouldn't make any difference).
2. You can start a clean install of Windows from within your existing
operating system if you put the disc in whilst windows is running. You then
have a level of accessibility as you can use your screen reader to get the
install started. I'm using windows 7 and it's certainly the case with that.
In fact with Windows 7 I can do the full system install without sighted
assistance which is good. However just to be on the safe side in case your
sound card isn't supported automatically without the driver being installed
by you, you can add the driver to the install when you start the setup and
it means you'd have narrator speech at least at the end of set up.
3. Did your system come with a recovery disc or partition? If so you should
just be able to press a function key at system turn on and the recovery
process starts. That would completely reset everything back to how it was
when you purchased the machine.
Hope that helps.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: hotscot72
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 5:54 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] clean install problem.
Hi guys, I'm having some problems with my Acer5920 vista laptop system.
After issues with my vista operating system, I'm trying to clean install the
whole operating system again.
I now find my dvd rom drive is not working at all, so I have purchased an
external dvd rom drive.
The new drive is showing at the top of the boot sequence list in bios, but
when I try to clean install from the cd, my system is not reckonizing the
external drive.
I seem to remember there was a certain f key which brought up a list of boot
up options, and booting from the dvd/cd rom drive was one of the choices.
Can't remember for the life of me the key strokes required to achieve this,
hope someone using an Acer laptop computer could help in this matter,
Billy
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