Laptop - Factory Reboot - New Hard Drive

[Teac23]

Hi.

I've replaced the old hard drive that came in Laptop from new. When i did a Factory Reboot in the past. I use to do the ALT/F10. But since i put new hard drive in. I can no longer do this. I get the following massage (Missing Operating System)

This is a Acer Aspire 5310 by the way. I have also tried using Acer Aspire 5315 Factory recovery/system discs for a Laptop. Which i thought would be compatible. But i keep getting a box come up with the following(Recovery 32 Type Mismatch)

Will this mean i have to shed out more cash and buy Acer Aspire 5310 Factory recovery/system discs. From Acer.

Can someone please help?

Thanks

[AlanHK]

Better to ask at this forum:
Acer: Discuss the Aspire, Ferrari and TravelMate line of notebooks from Acer here.

[bevills1]

Does the disk being replaced still work? If so, you should be able to reinstall it, make an image of the drive on an external drive, reinstall the new drive and then restore the image from the external drive to the new drive. This can be done with Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image, or download and use Seagate Disk Wizard or Maxblast 5 to do it if you have either a Seagate or Maxtor drive. I did this using Ghost 2003 on a Dell laptop, and the new drive works exactly like the one it replaced.

[Bjs]

You have a recovery cd/dvd which is looking for the recovery partition which dose not exist on the new hard drive.

Providing the old drive is simply being replace for more room, and has not failed ... then

You will need:

1: A system running xp
2: A converter , suitable for mounting laptop drive in xp system used for imaging drives
3: driveimage-xml from http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

The converter is around $7 depending on the type required.

Reinsert old laptop drive and try the restore process ... if the error dose not appear you now know why it dose.

Small section in this next post where they mentioned calling acer support ... nearby is exactly what I said.

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista-7/790055-acer-aspire-recovery-dvd-fails.html

I know the issue well.