windows 8 Unable to fresh install ANY version of windows.

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I have an acer apspire m5-481pt ultrabook. It is basically stock except that I installed a 250gb samsung ssd in it. I was running windows 10 for a while but it got real unstable do to lack t of win 10 drivers. I wanted to do a clean install of windows 8.1

on the machine, but it constantly throws a blue screen error during the initial stages (prior to drive partitioning). This has happened with windows 7 and 8.1 disks, although windows 7 has a slightly different error screen.

 

This is where it gets weird. I was able to do a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 with no issues. and by doing that, the drive would be formatted during the process. After the ubuntu install, I was able to get all the way to the partition screen in 8.1 and I

deleted the ext4 linux partitions, and it would not let me install to unallocated space. When I tried to create a new partition, it said that a partition could not be installed on that drive. Now the pc has no ssd partitions and subsequently no OS. Trying

to fresh install 7 or 8.1 results in the same errors as above. I know I could reinstall ubuntu with no problems but I want to get 8.1 back on it. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

 

 

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