http://community.acer.com/acer/tracker mrldgreen Tracker Sat, 15 Nov 2014 09:35:48 GMT 2014-11-15T09:35:48Z http://community.acer.com/t5/Desktops-All-In-Ones/Aspire-z5610-disk-changed-and-recovery-disks-do-not-completely/m-p/310464#M10654 <P>Thanks. That convinces me that it is something else and not the size of the drive per se. Another reply hinted at the partition on the drive. I am going to look into that.</P> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:08:17 GMT http://community.acer.com/t5/Desktops-All-In-Ones/Aspire-z5610-disk-changed-and-recovery-disks-do-not-completely/m-p/310464#M10654 mrldgreen 2014-11-03T10:08:17Z http://community.acer.com/t5/Desktops-All-In-Ones/Aspire-z5610-disk-changed-and-recovery-disks-do-not-completely/m-p/310462#M10653 <P>That's an interesting comment. I did in fact first use this drive on another computer to assist with moving my backups around before I bagan the installation so yes to your question. Let me try again with the partition removed. I'll let you know how I get on.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:06:12 GMT http://community.acer.com/t5/Desktops-All-In-Ones/Aspire-z5610-disk-changed-and-recovery-disks-do-not-completely/m-p/310462#M10653 mrldgreen 2014-11-03T10:06:12Z http://community.acer.com/t5/Desktops-All-In-Ones/Aspire-z5610-disk-changed-and-recovery-disks-do-not-completely/m-p/310162#M10642 <P>The internal hard drive in my 4 year old Aspire Z5610 cooked itself this weekend. I could not match the drive exactly so I put in a new 1TB hard drive. Of course, the old recovery partition was cooked along with the user partition and this drive does not have the Acer recovery partition. I used the 3 recovery disks and these seemed to work to a point. But when the system configures the services for the first time, an error pops up saying the installation cannot be completed on this machine and to start again. Well, I started again and again and again. Same error. I found a hack to get me past that and although it leaves me with a Windows 7 I can log into, lots of things don't work. In particular, the Windows update service will not turn on; this is&nbsp;a major&nbsp;problem. I cannot turn on indexing. Also eRecovery doesn't recognise the DVD drive (the internal one stoped working a while ago so I use an external USB drive that in all other respect works perfectly). The Acer system information detects the machine perfectly with the serial number and SNID. I would be astonished if the Windows 7 OEM build has been designed to only work with one type of harddrive - which is the same manufacturer just a slightly larger capacity. So I can only think there is something else not quite right but I haven't spotted it yet.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Any ideas?</P> Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:33:32 GMT http://community.acer.com/t5/Desktops-All-In-Ones/Aspire-z5610-disk-changed-and-recovery-disks-do-not-completely/m-p/310162#M10642 mrldgreen 2014-11-02T14:33:32Z