Q: My Lenovo (windows 8.1, later 10) used a recovery drive from an Acer laptop with Windows 8 which it updated to 10. Len now thinks it’s an Acer? What changed? (Question sent via Quora)
A: OEM recovery drives usually contain drivers and add-on software specific to that brand of PC; the Acer recovery disk you used no doubt added some Acer-branded drivers to the mix.
That’s why it’s generally NOT a good idea to use one brand’s OEM recovery drive on another brand of PC!
Because I don’t know exactly what was on the Lenovo that got, um, Acer-ified, I can’t tell you exactly what the fix is.
Things might be fine — if all Acer did was add some branding, then you’re probably good to go. But if the Acer software is expecting to find some Acer-specific hardware in the system, you may encounter trouble down the road.
I’d suggest you try Win10’s built-in Reset options; they may be able to strip out the OEM-specific stuff and leave you with a more or less “pure” Windows version. See: Recovery options in Windows 10; scroll down to/open the section called “Use installation media to restore or reset your PC.”
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