I ran the recovery media usb from Acer again last night, then let it finish running overnight. To my amazement, Windows 10 Home edition is once again up and running on my Acer Aspire. Is there any way of upgrading to 10 without buying Windows 10 from Microsoft? Can (or will, or would) Acer help. Seems the upgrade offer has expired, as of about a year ago. I'd never used 8.1, and had bought this computer because of the upgrade offer. After several tries last night, I started it up again and turned in for the night. I ordered it (cost me about $47 with tax you'd think a computer should come with recovery media).Īlthough I was able to boot from the recovery drive (I used the USB2 port - I'd read online that this model of Acer has firmware problems and does not boot from USB3) - it took several tries to recover and restore the computer.
Searching Acer online, and not finding any help, I finally found the Acer USB Recovery Drive compatible with my Aspire ES1- 's SNID. I could still access the boot menu by pressing F2 while turning on the power, but that didn't help. Two weeks ago the notebook/netbook crashed, and I could not boot into Windows. It came withe label 'Windows 10 Now' and 'Free Windows 10 upgrade.' I ran the upgrade successfully.
I bought a new Acer Aspire ES1-111M-C40S a year and a half ago.
