This will restore your computer to the original factory configuration, and reinstall Windows. Once finished, it will restart and begin the initial Windows setup process. In your case, however, as the first message is to switch to legacy, then I would definitely also switch off the secure boot facility. I am sure it can be fixed but not by a dumb college kid. I am just a little unsure you have been given the correct advice - by Dell I mean For example Using Gateway Recovery Management to Refresh Windows 8 How do I refresh Windows 8 using Gateway Recovery Management? I am going to give my email address if anyone can help, Keep Support in the Forums For the safety of our members, we must require that all technical support take place in the forums. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Your computer will restart and begin the refresh process. Such opinions may not be accurate and they are to be used at your own risk. This would boot from the recovery disk you inserted in the optical drive. I start school soon and have no way of paying for it. All data will be lost! Due to the risks involved, we also do not allow live remote control of computers by our volunteers.
Long story short, I ordered the disks we needed from gateway and received them in and during the process of trying to boot the disks. I will have to sell a kidney and get this into a shop. Net is the opinions of its users. If you could not find the exact driver for your hardware device or you aren't sure which driver is right one, we have a program that will detect your hardware specifications and identify the correct driver for your needs. When I put one it goes through the language and all that then it says switch to legacy bios mode, i do that and it says switch to uefi mode.
And it wont even boot the recovery disk without using the system disk first and that is where I get the above message. You will have to make a cd of seatools to boot to and test the hard drive. So we need to backup system for Gateway laptop previously. In the Recovery is complete window, click Finish. This is my friends laptop, gateway said the only way to fix the password problem was to do a full recovery. The system will load from the Gateway Recovery Media. Windows prepares to start for the first time.
Fully clean the drive is recommended. I wish I could give a number for someone to call me and walk through this problem and possible solutions. In the System Recovery Options dialog box, select the appropriate keyboard layout, and then click Next. I would try the long generic test. The original hard drive has failed thus I am not able to utilize a restore partition. Create recovery disks for Gateway with Gateway Recovery Center The Acer eRecovery Management software Gateway computers shipped after November, 2004 have a backup solution called Gateway System Recovery.
The dynamic usability of Windows 8 and optional touchscreens further enhance your performance. If you're looking for live support, there are other paid sites that provide that service. If you don't have a driver or program disk for your laptop, they can be downloaded from the gateway website. Create the recovery disk in Windows 7 Windows 7 users can create the set of recovery disks using the Gateway Recovery Management software. Note: This option will install a recovery partition first, then restore the user partition. This offers the opportunity for peer-review with the hope that bad advice can be corrected. So I took it in to geek squad and they told me to order a recovery disc set from Gateway.
The Windows partition is formatted and Windows is installed. It may depend on how the original installation was performed. The setup keeps kicking me back and forth between the two never making any progress. If it passes is a whole other ball of wax. To download the proper driver, first choose your operating system, then find your device name and click the download button. If it passes a short, then try the longer version.
The rest are by people who can't drive any better than a drunk. You can reinstall Windows Vista using the backup media the original Windows Vista media. The Advanced Boot Options menu opens. In the System Recovery Options window, select Restart. I know it has one other mode but I can't get it to that mode to try.
This will refresh your operating system, but will not erase your data. Do you want to continue? If it is off, switch it on. If you can boot into Windows 8 These instructions apply if you are able to boot into Windows 8. Have no idea what to do or how to do it. It just wants me to switch from legacy to eufi, then eufi to legacy, ongoing issue.
I have a gateway laptop that recently randomly turned off and when turned back on, the laptop would start up through the gateway boot screen, then have a black screen with a white blinking cursor. Having problems and solutions publicly visible may also help someone in the future who is experiencing the same issue. However, this option will erase all your business files and settings, so it should be used only when encountering irreparable damage to your operating system, or you have readily accessible backups of all your business data. Or when we want to get a fresh system environment, is a good choice. And of course, my customer did not have restore disks made. The Gateway recovery disc restores your Gateway computer to the condition it was in when you first purchased it.