Replacing hard drive after failure

Hi there. I'm using ES1-521 and recently went crazy beating the windows button after that my windows crashed down. I used my acer recovery flash drive and after 5 hours I got new windows and empty hard drive. Now I can hear weird noises from my laptop especially on hard drive location. Later on windows 10 shows an error of hard drive and offered to make recovery disc because hard drive damaged and have to be repaired or replaced.
So because its already empty ( whipped out ) I decided to buy a new hard drive for the same (1 TB) capacity.
My question is will that Acer recovery flash drive will allow me to install new windows? If not - what should I do to be able to run the same win10 with all acer apps and support?
Thank you!

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Lanner_Falcon

Hi Rescuerevp.

My guess is that, it shouldn't be a problem if you are replacing a similar hard drive to what the manufacturer had it inside already(as in same type and capacity).

However, before deciding on it - there is no loss in trying to Run check disk command to recover the hard drive from any minor disk errors.
Please do inform us if the Check disk process didn't help you out in resolving the issue.

Steps that you could try:
Source 1: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872425.aspx
Source 2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/2641432/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors-in-windows-7

Running Check Disk from the Command Line
You can run Check Disk from an elevated command prompt or within other tools. At the elevated command prompt, you can test the integrity of drive C by typing the following command:
chkdsk C:

Check Disk then performs an analysis of the disk and returns a status message regarding any problems it encounters.Unless you specify further options, Check Disk won’t repair problems, however.To find and repair errors on drive C, use this command:
chkdsk /f C:

When you use this command, Check Disk performs an analysis of the disk and then repairs any errors it finds, provided that the disk isn’t in use. If the disk is in use, Check Disk displays a prompt that asks whether you want to schedule the disk to be checked the next time you restart the system. Click Yes to schedule this check.

The complete syntax for Check Disk is as follows:
CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]]

The options and switches for Check Disk are used as follows:
volume Sets the volume to work with
path/filename Specifies files to check for fragmentation (FAT16 and FAT32 only)
/F Fixes errors on the disk
/V Displays the full path and name of every file on the disk (FAT16 and FAT32); displays cleanup messages if any (NTFS)
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F)
/X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary (implies /F)
/I Performs a minimum check of index entries (NTFS only)
/C Skips checking of cycles within the folder structure (NTFS only)
/L:size Sets the log file size (NTFS only)
/B Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume (NTFS only; implies /R)

Commodore_1995#

The recovery partition is contained in the hd that came with the notebook! The hd you purchased will not contain this recovery partition!

You have two options:

a) Buy a recovery flash drive from this site: https://store.acer.com/en-us/extended/recovery/

b) or install windows 10 with an iso of microsoft using this document that I created myself:

instalar windows 10 inglês.pdf

rescuerevp

Lanner_Falcon said:

Hi Rescuerevp.

My guess is that, it shouldn't be a problem if you are replacing a similar hard drive to what the manufacturer had it inside already(as in same type and capacity).

However, before deciding on it - there is no loss in trying to Run check disk command to recover the hard drive from any minor disk errors.
Please do inform us if the Check disk process didn't help you out in resolving the issue.

Steps that you could try:
Source 1: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872425.aspx
Source 2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/2641432/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors-in-windows-7

Running Check Disk from the Command Line
You can run Check Disk from an elevated command prompt or within other tools. At the elevated command prompt, you can test the integrity of drive C by typing the following command:
chkdsk C:

Check Disk then performs an analysis of the disk and returns a status message regarding any problems it encounters.Unless you specify further options, Check Disk won’t repair problems, however.To find and repair errors on drive C, use this command:
chkdsk /f C:

When you use this command, Check Disk performs an analysis of the disk and then repairs any errors it finds, provided that the disk isn’t in use. If the disk is in use, Check Disk displays a prompt that asks whether you want to schedule the disk to be checked the next time you restart the system. Click Yes to schedule this check.

The complete syntax for Check Disk is as follows:
CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]]

The options and switches for Check Disk are used as follows:
volume Sets the volume to work with
path/filename Specifies files to check for fragmentation (FAT16 and FAT32 only)
/F Fixes errors on the disk
/V Displays the full path and name of every file on the disk (FAT16 and FAT32); displays cleanup messages if any (NTFS)
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F)
/X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary (implies /F)
/I Performs a minimum check of index entries (NTFS only)
/C Skips checking of cycles within the folder structure (NTFS only)
/L:size Sets the log file size (NTFS only)
/B Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume (NTFS only; implies /R)

So what I'm gonna do now?!

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Lanner_Falcon

Run the command prompt as administrator...
Type cmd in search and right on command prompt. Then choose the option run as administrator..
That would be the elevated command prompt..

Once u opened the command prompt as administrator try to run chkdsk command with necessary combinations

rescuerevp

Lanner_Falcon said:

Hi Rescuerevp.

My guess is that, it shouldn't be a problem if you are replacing a similar hard drive to what the manufacturer had it inside already(as in same type and capacity).

However, before deciding on it - there is no loss in trying to Run check disk command to recover the hard drive from any minor disk errors.
Please do inform us if the Check disk process didn't help you out in resolving the issue.

Steps that you could try:
Source 1: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872425.aspx
Source 2: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/2641432/check-your-hard-disk-for-errors-in-windows-7

Running Check Disk from the Command Line
You can run Check Disk from an elevated command prompt or within other tools. At the elevated command prompt, you can test the integrity of drive C by typing the following command:
chkdsk C:

Check Disk then performs an analysis of the disk and returns a status message regarding any problems it encounters.Unless you specify further options, Check Disk won’t repair problems, however.To find and repair errors on drive C, use this command:
chkdsk /f C:

When you use this command, Check Disk performs an analysis of the disk and then repairs any errors it finds, provided that the disk isn’t in use. If the disk is in use, Check Disk displays a prompt that asks whether you want to schedule the disk to be checked the next time you restart the system. Click Yes to schedule this check.

The complete syntax for Check Disk is as follows:
CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]]

The options and switches for Check Disk are used as follows:
volume Sets the volume to work with
path/filename Specifies files to check for fragmentation (FAT16 and FAT32 only)
/F Fixes errors on the disk
/V Displays the full path and name of every file on the disk (FAT16 and FAT32); displays cleanup messages if any (NTFS)
/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F)
/X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary (implies /F)
/I Performs a minimum check of index entries (NTFS only)
/C Skips checking of cycles within the folder structure (NTFS only)
/L:size Sets the log file size (NTFS only)
/B Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume (NTFS only; implies /R)

So I did the 2nd option even its for Win7 and Im running Win10. No errors on disk.

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Lanner_Falcon

Restart PC: hold Shift and select Power when sign-in screen show up > Restart;
After PC/laptop restarts to Choose an option screen, selectTroubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings > Restart;
After PC/laptop restarts, you'll see a list of options. Select 5 or F5 to start PC from Safe Mode with Networking

enter safe mode and check if you are still hearing that noise

Also try to run all the updates if you have reset the computer recently. If these steps fail to stop the noise then go for changing the hard drive.

Commodore_1995#

Use this program to see the health of hd "crystaldiskinfo"! Can you record a video with the location of the noise? If it is the noise of a needle touching the disc, then it is likely that the disc is in trouble!

Is it similar to that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcQL-5E3Ts

rescuerevp

egydiocoelho said:

Use this program to see the health of hd "crystaldiskinfo"! Can you record a video with the location of the noise? If it is the noise of a needle touching the disc, then it is likely that the disc is in trouble!
Is it similar to that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcQL-5E3Ts

So there is no way to check it - windows cant even start up. Recovery flash drive doesn't help. Waiting for a new hard drive to replace.

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