I may have dug myself in too deep with this one.
I've been having a long saga of problems dealing with my 3 year old Acer Aspire V5-552PG. I just repaired the monitor cable which had gotten pinched and frayed somehow. It was causing the monitor to flash on and off, and then come back and say that my hardware settings had changed. I couldn't connect to projectors or adjust the brightness either. I fix the cable, but still no projectors or brightness control. I decided that it was a driver problem, and after messing around with drivers and such I decide to go nuclear and just start with a fresh windows install. I back everything up, and plug in my recovery USB drive. When it comes to selecting the partition to install windows to, I can't use any of them. There's the recovery partition (obviously too small) another reserved one (too small) and the primary one. I don't remember the error off hand, but it said something about going to microsoft.com to learn more about GPT drives. So I do that and it tells me to clean the drive and convert it to GPT. I restart and now I just get an error that says "No bootable device. Hit any key." There is both the HD and a bootable USB in there. I hit any key and get a BIOS screen that says to select a boot option, only there are no boot options available. Thinking I may have corrupted something I formatted the drive using another PC, and tried again. I converted it to MBR to try that as well, but no joy.
What can I do to fix this? Am I completely hosed? TIA
EDIT: Fixed the model number.
I've been having a long saga of problems dealing with my 3 year old Acer Aspire V5-552PG. I just repaired the monitor cable which had gotten pinched and frayed somehow. It was causing the monitor to flash on and off, and then come back and say that my hardware settings had changed. I couldn't connect to projectors or adjust the brightness either. I fix the cable, but still no projectors or brightness control. I decided that it was a driver problem, and after messing around with drivers and such I decide to go nuclear and just start with a fresh windows install. I back everything up, and plug in my recovery USB drive. When it comes to selecting the partition to install windows to, I can't use any of them. There's the recovery partition (obviously too small) another reserved one (too small) and the primary one. I don't remember the error off hand, but it said something about going to microsoft.com to learn more about GPT drives. So I do that and it tells me to clean the drive and convert it to GPT. I restart and now I just get an error that says "No bootable device. Hit any key." There is both the HD and a bootable USB in there. I hit any key and get a BIOS screen that says to select a boot option, only there are no boot options available. Thinking I may have corrupted something I formatted the drive using another PC, and tried again. I converted it to MBR to try that as well, but no joy.
What can I do to fix this? Am I completely hosed? TIA
EDIT: Fixed the model number.
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