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Greer2013

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I recently installed a new SATA hardrive in my acer extensa 4620Z. I have tried the system restore disks, system recovery disks and even the geek squad disks for my OS. I get the status line at the bottom of the screen stating "windows is loading files..." After that I get a green acer screen stating error no partition available. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
 
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New hard drives ship completely blank. A stock Windows disk is able to format a blank volume and subsequently install to it, but perhaps the Acer install disk can't for whatever reason.

Boot from this (burn .iso to disk and boot)

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

press enter through the startup stuff and when it loads the program, create a new NTFS partition (not ext3 or ext4 or any other option as Windows doesn't recognize those)
 
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I followed the link and I'm not the most computer savvy person, which download do I pick?
 
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Ok, thank you very much for your help. I'm sure I will have more questions as I go along, I really appreciate this. I'm an EOD tech in the Air Force and have been for the last 16 years. I can drive a robot and do all the other crazy stuff but this is a total foreign language to me. My wife wants me to take it in or have someone come do it but I am determined to figure it out. Thanks

 
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