Brand new Aspire V3-571G wont load!

Right, I tried as suggested - I changed the SATA mode to IDE and restarted, which then did the following - 

Starting automatic repair, eerstarted itself

diagnosing pc disc errors, restarted itself

repairing disc errors, restarted

analysing pc, restarted

repairing pc, restarted

This took about 4 hours,

Booted up further than it has before but said 'your pc could not be recovered', and gave me the options to enter windows 8, or clean the hard drive. I selected clean, and went for a refresh not a full clean, which wiped all the files.

It then said resetting pc, this process took another hour.

It then rebooted and gave me a BSOD. So Windows 8 is well and truly ***

I set the SATA mode to IDE and the BIOS to Legacy, which allowed me to boot from a Windows 7 disc I have, and this time it actually went into the set up process correctly. However it would not let me use any of the partitions because they are all GPT or something like that.

I had to delete all the partitions and format into one single partition which then allowed me to install Wnidows 7.

I installed successfully, and began installing the current drivers for all the hardware, installed MS security essentials, Steam and Chrome etc, it was all working fine, had to restart a couple of times for the drivers etc. This afternoon I turned on the laptop and it started Windows, but before getting to the desktop it had another BSOD and did a physical memory dump. It has spent the last 2 hours running a startup repair, 'repairing disc errors' AGAIN.

I'm unsure if this means my harddrive is just ***, or the BIOS isn't loading windows properly.. no idea . Brand new out the box on Sunday, and it's Thursday and I'm still struggling to get the  thing to load Windows properly!

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Ok I spoke way too soon!

The laptop was working fine for about 24 hours, then I got home from work and turned it on and it blue screened as soon as Windows starts loading. I let it run the endless pc repairs processes and search/repair disk errors and nothing, just says critical disk errors.

I took it to my mate who is an IT wiz by profession and he reloaded Windows 8 for me, running in AHCI SATA mode as it should be, although it won't run in UEFI BIOS mode... I assume this is because Acer had the sense (or lack of?) to install the UEFI bios mode software into the hard drive instead of a seperate chip as every other manufacturer does. Please correct me if I'm wrong here? But I cannot get it to run UEFI at all without messing up instantly.

Got it running in Windows 8 fine, updated all the drivers, was using the laptop for about 5 hours no problem yesterday evening. This morning I turned it on and it blue screened, but ran some disk repair and diagnosis, and managed to repair itself.

However now it is running incredibly slow, and as soon as you try and run any kind of program it just stops responding, and grinds to a halt to the point you cannot even ctrl alt delete to close it.

So I'm convinced this is a hard drive fault, as 4 installs of windows which work fine for hours and hours without problems suddenly throw up critical disk errors.

My problem is, Acer told me that their Dead on Arrival service is free to repair if it is a minor or major hardware fault. However if they need to reinstall their recovery media it costs £70... I do not need the recovery media, I need a replacement hard drive. So now I'm stuck in a catch 22 whereby I've spent hundreds of £££'s on a laptop with a dodgy hard drive, and now will have to pay more to have their recovry media which I DO NOT NEED reinstalled.

Please could an Acer technician, which have been active on the forums the last week, actually give me some kind of reply to ANY of my messages, which doesn't just tell me to call your high rate call centre. Give me ANY information which might be of some use please.