Windows 10: cant get rescue disk to work

Acer Aspire AXC-704G
My neighbour was a victim of ransom-ware. I reformated his hard drive so I could reload Windows 10. When I try to boot either to a Windows rescue disk (that I used successfully before) all that comes up it Acer stuff that will not net me run the media creation tool. All I get is Acer stuff which takes me nowhere useful. I tried to connect another hard drive with a bootable system and I STILL only get the Acer rescue/troubleshoot useless stuff. Is there a way to get the useless ACER rescue stuff off, or somehow get past it and restore the computer.

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Windows 10 updates keep turning off system restore thus deleting previous restore points!

How on earth does MS stay in business?? The only solution to rescuing a PC from yet another disatrous update crash was to use a rescue disk for system restore. Now you cant even do that. SO.....is the only option to join a class action lawsuit???

I have spent over 20 hours on this ridiculous Windows 10 machine. HOW DO THEY GET AWAY WITH THIS??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Migrating Windows 10 from m.2 sata to new pcie nvme ssd

Hello all,

I'm going to upgrade my current m.2 sata 128gb to a m.2 pcie nvme 480gb and have questions about migrating Windows over. From my understanding since i have a laptop and cant connect both drives at the same time and pcie nvme isnt supported externally I was
going to try and create a restore disk of my current drive and then image it to my new drive. Will this work?

Again my process will be, create rescue disk and image to usb, power down and swap drives, enable usb boot to my usb and power on, run the rescue disk and image to my new pcie nvme ssd.

Does anyone see problems with this? Do I need a large usb or will 32gb work for a 128gb ssd?

 

You didn't say if you checked this.

Have you checked in BIOS (f2 on that machine to enter setup) and confirmed boot order, setting USB or CD to number one.

You also need to disable secure boot in BIOS until you have things running, can't find manual with full BIOS listing but new machines have this BIOS setting.

See this tutorial on clean install. The Media creator tool to create a USB key only works on Windows 10 machine. If you try on Win 7 machine it says it can't find USB key.

Windows 10 - Clean Install

I also read that to boot UEFI from USB key it should be FAT32. The media creator handles this. If you created key using different process you will have to watch this.

 

I changed the boot order and I shut off secure boot, it didn't help. Can I run the media creation tool from a command prompt?

 

Download a windows 10 ISO then do the clean install in Caledon Ken's post. Windows 10 ISO Download

 

Thanks, I'll let you know how it turns out.
Len