Windows 8 PC Reset. Taking toooo long.

Hello Linda,

Thank you for responding.

What was the error message or code when Blue screen appeared?

It is good to know that you managed to retrieve Windows product key.

Please keep us posted.

Thank you

i purchased the HDD with equal specifications as the one installed i worked dell tech commercial end for laptops so i am not novice with computers repairs. I do however take issue with embedding the product id . I own an acer aspire and have read numerous issues with recovery and restore when the hdd corrupts after windows 10 updates. It did update to windows 10 back in February and I restored it back to windows 8. I had it tweaked and running the way I wanted and then again windows 10 did its update and it blue screened.

 I have not been able to recover or restore since this happened in march. I have disabled the windows 10 update on this computer since I found there are many bugs that need addressing before I will ever consider using windows 10.

back to my acer hdd. purchased a new one and it remains unrecognized when connected to the acer laptop. old one has major corruption. although testing claims that the recovery partition is still excellent condition.. the remainder has overlapping partitions and in very bad condition..

I will most likely have to pay to get a recovery program as I do not have time to recall dos command prompts  since i haven't used them for 10 years I am getting too old to take a refresher course with all that life throws at me ..

regarding windows 8.1 and windows 8 pro are you stating that if i am to install windows I should be using windows 8 pro. and will the product key allow me to install it  and or do i need the product key.i did manage to retrieve the product key off the hdd ..  i am not well versed on the newer end of technology seems it advanced and I was sleeping..  so i am not as advanced on current tech.. 

 thanks LAD

Hello Linda,

Thank you for the reply.

I appreciate your patience.

Did you try using suggestions provided in my previous posts?

Please reply with results.

Thank you

When your changing your drive you have to make sure you have the same model cause if not not it can cause data corruption . My pc has successfully restarted and has reinstalled Windows 8 pro . If you any further problem you should scan your drive and check if it's working on a another pc and if you have a laptop you should visit the manufacturer and get the problem fixed. Let me know if the method has worked for you.

I gave up on mine after the third time it got stuck at 66% 3 days into it. It just seems the hard drive was unsalvageable but I haven't given up completely I purchased a 16 gigabyte thumb drive and plan to reinstall Windows 8 on a new hard drive and try to recover the data off my old hard drive it seems that is the only way it's possible since the old hard drive gets stuck and won't go any further than 66%. I will post later as to my success or failure.