Failed Hard Drive With Original Back Up

Raptorz · May 2013

Hi, Im not daft when it comes to installations and general pc stuff but this one has me baffled, any fix would help me greatly.

I have an acer aspire V3-571G with windows 8, when first purchased brand new it gave me no option for backing up factory defaults to disk, the only option was to a Flash Drive, i never had a 16gb stick handy so i was able to do a Back-up to a 16gb sd card (which it allowed me to do).

To cut a long story short, my hard drive failed completely and i attached a new clean hard drive, Now i know i cant boot from an sd drive to recover factory OS on new drive and cant do Alt and F10 recovery due to obvious reason, so i installed windows 7 on new hard drive and was able to extract Acer Recovery from SD card back up files.

Now here comes my novice side, i read that the recovery partition was on D and labeled ACERDATA so i copied my Sd card to this drive and entered the eRecovery Console manager in the hope i could restore factory settings through the partition recently copied but i get the error, Hard Drive Configuration is Not Set To Factory Default. Restore Aborted, this is the message for all the menus.

Now i didnt really expect it to work, however as the original recovery manager enabled me to back up to an SD drive, there must be a way to get this back up data to install fresh on this new hard drive.

Maybe there more partitions i have to make and get everything exact before it allows me to Restore?

Any Help Please