So I detached the touchpad to make room for a DVD unit and I was able to boot up a DVD I had lying around of Linux Mint! I am going to try installing it to see if it works. This laptop did not come with a CD/DVD unit. I have a spare 20 GB SATA hard drive that I'm going to install Windows 8 on using my personal laptop and then I'll swap it into this laptop, if that doesn't boot, what's next? However it doesn't show up on the boot menu. Took the hard drive out my personal laptop, running Windows 10 and.Drive boots on my personal laptop just fine. Booting off a Windows 7 USB thumbdrive, created by the Windows 7 USB.Booting off a Windows 8 USB thumbdrive, one created with the Windowsħ USB tool and another created with Rufus.There is a BIOS update through Acer but it requires a working operating system to apply. Legacy mode is not an option, UEFI is the only option in my BIOS. The thumb drives don't show up in either BIOS or the boot menu. I had a hard drive failure in this laptop, and both hard drives I've put in it show up in BIOS, but do not show up in the boot menu.
