I have an Acer Aspire One D257. It does not have a built in DVD/ Draw. It came pre-installed with 'windows 7 starter' I do not have a recovery disc etc. For this program.

Last year I used widows any time upgrade to install 'windows 7 Home premium upgrade,' which was installed via the internet by a technician of Microsoft. I then had the upgrade key sent to me by e mail, which I still have. I later had problems with the computer and decided to re-in stall windows 7. I visited Microsoft site and downloaded to a USB key the windows 7 home premium program (32 bit). I successfully installed this into the Acer D257. However I was unable to activate with my Windows 7 Home premium upgrade key, for some reason it does not accept it? So now I have a dilemma, I have a key which cost about £76.00 for the upgrade which appears to be useless.

Aug 11, 2014  It came pre-installed with 'windows 7 starter' I do not have a recovery disc etc. For this program. Last year I used widows any. Party ability bars 335. Skip to main content. Reinstall Windows 7 Starter Acer Aspire One D257 I have an Acer Aspire One D257. It does not have a built in DVD/ Draw. You wnat a copy of the recovery media for the acer one on a usb flash drive just found this with the help of google Recovery procedure for Acer netbooks. Important Information The Recovery disc will help you to restore the hard drive with the original software content that was installed when you purchased your notebook.

Also I am unable to get back to the original 'windows 7 starter' as system restore will only let me go back to a point in time which is after I installed windows 7, about 2 weeks ago. How can I resolve this without having to buy yet another new program. I do have use of an external DVD draw if I need it. Can anyone help please. Original title: bobgoodman1706.