Have you tried it in another computer or another drive? If the drive is bad, you could get another USB external card reader (they don’t cost much and are available in lots of stores) and try it in that one. And a USB external DVD drive would be useful for all of your computers, not just this one.Īs far as your computer not being able to read the 32 GB SD card, it could be a bad card, or maybe a bad drive. I knew I wasn’t going to get much anyway for a 4-year-old computer.Ī 4-year old computer isn’t bad, even though that’s what the marketers would have you believe.Īs far as a USB external DVD drive, you can get a Samsung (with M-drive support) for $25, including shipping, from Newegg. I’ve spent too much time trying to figure this out, even with the help of all you nice techies, so I’m just going to have to take it as a loss unless I can find someone willing to buy it as is. Without the advantage of an SD card slot on my Acer Iconia W7 series tablet. Microsoft discontinued the sale of Windows 7 more than 2 years ago, your best option is as follows: If you still have the Windows 7 COA / Product key sticker find a friend with a 'Retail' version (Full or Upgrade media, just the media as you don't need their key) of the installation DVD (must be the same as your key was for: Home Premium, Pro. I just now managed accidentally to set my Boot drive to the 32 GB SD card, but now I can’t load the Win8.1 recovery image to the card because my desktop can’t read it. All you need to fix Windows 8 is a recovery disk, either on CD/DVD. I thought I could restore 8.1 with a flash drive, if necessary. That’s the only reason I upgraded to Win 8.1. The only way I can restore Win7 is to buy an external DVD drive to connect to the tablet. Once you have done that, you could then try to restore the Windows 8.1 image you have created, or just do the upgrade to Windows 8.1 again. To bypass the password issue, you could try using Recovery Management to restore your tablet to factory specs (i.e.
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