Acer TravelMate 7720G problems after bios update
Hi all, I just joined out of despair after I have managed to make this laptop useless.
My sister gave it to me few hours before hard disk failure and I barely managed to backup her data. I then bought a new hard disk and installed windows 7 ultimate 32 bit, tried to update bios (with the one from official Acer site under win 7 32bit updates) and failed with the unfamous flash.sys error (tried as admin). I decided to move to windows 7 ultimate 64bit only to discover that firmware 1.22 had an error that prevented the correct use of the 64bit features, so I googled a bit more and found out that the bios flash could only be used under windows xp.
I searched for the dos rom files, without any success (yes, lot of people talking about getting the zip with both phlasher and win exe in the past, but not a single option for me).
I decided to try with Hiren's boot cd mini win XP but the bios flash failed with some "power error".
I shrunk my HD and installed XP into the partition, and finally I successfully installed bios 1.35.
My happiness was short, since after that I could not boot into windows XP, nor reinstall it, or load a windows 8 cd for accessing the command prompt (as I did for saving the datas while making the backup).
I just want to fix the mbr for windows 7, or format the hard disk and start installation again, but I cannot understand if the problem is the bios (I can access it and seems to be perfectly working).
Now I'mgoing to try Hiren's cd again, but I would really appreciate your opinion on the matter.
My sister gave it to me few hours before hard disk failure and I barely managed to backup her data. I then bought a new hard disk and installed windows 7 ultimate 32 bit, tried to update bios (with the one from official Acer site under win 7 32bit updates) and failed with the unfamous flash.sys error (tried as admin). I decided to move to windows 7 ultimate 64bit only to discover that firmware 1.22 had an error that prevented the correct use of the 64bit features, so I googled a bit more and found out that the bios flash could only be used under windows xp.
I searched for the dos rom files, without any success (yes, lot of people talking about getting the zip with both phlasher and win exe in the past, but not a single option for me).
I decided to try with Hiren's boot cd mini win XP but the bios flash failed with some "power error".
I shrunk my HD and installed XP into the partition, and finally I successfully installed bios 1.35.
My happiness was short, since after that I could not boot into windows XP, nor reinstall it, or load a windows 8 cd for accessing the command prompt (as I did for saving the datas while making the backup).
I just want to fix the mbr for windows 7, or format the hard disk and start installation again, but I cannot understand if the problem is the bios (I can access it and seems to be perfectly working).
Now I'mgoing to try Hiren's cd again, but I would really appreciate your opinion on the matter.
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