New install
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:43 am
ACER Aspire V5-551 shipped with W8
Using DFSee I cleaned the front of the HDD, created a 2G FAT16 primary, and several logicals, all formatted FAT32 as place holders.
Installed Acronis OSS V5 on the first partition - my standard Boot Manager for several years.
Installed W8 on partition 6, worked OK.
Installed W7 on partition 5, worked OK, it created a boot manager that had W7 and W8.
Installed FreeDOS on the first partition.
Acronis OSS tried to work but failed to load a menu.
Installed Boltit Bare Metal(BBM). It picked up W7 and booted it OK.
Installed FreeDOS again to see if it would get added to boot menu; no.
Chose direct boot of the First partition, FreeDOS booted.
After that the only thing that booted, regardless of what I tried, was FreeDOS.
Reinstalled BBM, no change; DOS only.
Ideas?
Ray
Using DFSee I cleaned the front of the HDD, created a 2G FAT16 primary, and several logicals, all formatted FAT32 as place holders.
Installed Acronis OSS V5 on the first partition - my standard Boot Manager for several years.
Installed W8 on partition 6, worked OK.
Installed W7 on partition 5, worked OK, it created a boot manager that had W7 and W8.
Installed FreeDOS on the first partition.
Acronis OSS tried to work but failed to load a menu.
Installed Boltit Bare Metal(BBM). It picked up W7 and booted it OK.
Installed FreeDOS again to see if it would get added to boot menu; no.
Chose direct boot of the First partition, FreeDOS booted.
After that the only thing that booted, regardless of what I tried, was FreeDOS.
Reinstalled BBM, no change; DOS only.
Ideas?
Ray