Getting "No Partition" Error When Attempting Reload of O/S

I was a Windows 7 beta participant (loaded on my Acer Extensa 4420) until very recently. While I liked Windows 7 very much, it was crashtastic with this machine, so I decided recently to go back to Vista.

Of course the recovery partition was now gone and I did not have nor make recovery disks, so I had to go through the painful process of talking with someone in India about purchasing recovery disks from Acer. It cost $20 and nearly 45 minutes of my time.

I received the disks (two "System Disks" and two "Recovery Disks") from Acer, and have followed their directions. I have tried loading the disks in different sequences and in different ways, but I get a "no partition" error.

If anyone has any ideas as regards how to proceed at this point, I would be thankful. The machine is very nice, and I would hate to Craigslist it so soon.

(A non-starter option would be to purchase another non-OEM version of Vista.)

 

Alt+F10 is a non-starter. you need to find a way to get Fdisk to run.to format the hard drive.
will see what i can find out for you.

 

http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/fo...ada&siteid=7297&areaid=17&formid=3394#results

try disk format to clean disk if you want

you might have go into bios and disable ahci to install

you need to pick you model download post disk format cd

and burn to cd