Restoring factory defaults in my V3-571 on a new hard drive (using Acer purchased recovery disks)

Ok I've wiped it with partition wizard and running the recovery process now (I have and always have chosen the second option - Completely restore computer to Factory defaults). I have reached the stage where it hangs at 99% while updating system. The same popup is in the background, alt-tab to bring it to the forground, what should i do now? 

Hello Karol, 

I have done all tests including the S.M.A.R.T and have wiped the NEW hard drive with Western Digital's diagnositic tool the second time I tried to install. The memory I tested with Memtest64 when I was diagnosing the issues I had with the old HD and it came up fine. 

The recovery disks I ordered from Acer do not appear to have any visible damage. I can not say with certainty that the content of these dvds is whole or even the burn process was conducted correctly. I do not have another copy as I didn't make a set when I firt purchased the unit, I'm kicking myself for it right now as you can imagine lol.

Hey Jordan! Sorry for the delayed response got really busy. Thanks for giving me this option I may end up going this route but I have some questions. If I do what you suggest (without the recovery disks in step 10), what would I loose that the recovery disks would install? I understand that I would have to deal with the headache of reinstalling drivers as well but what is the benefit of doing it your way?

Update: So I clicked ok on the confirmation popup window and within 2mins, the updating system progress bar went to 100% and it showed finished and rebooted into the OS setup! I was pretty stoked until I completed the setup, got into the user profile and found that drivers and programs were missing. Isn't the whole purpose of these disks to return a machine back to a preloaded, functional state? For instance under Device manager I see the Atheros wireless adapter driver missing(easy enough to fix, I know), a bunch of base system device drivers (?) and PCI simple comm controller driver missing. WTH! Another thing I notice right of the bat, was under disk management, all partitions are setup correctly (as far as I can recall) including the recovery, but there is no Acer Erecovery program to use it and it wont boot with the ALT-F10 key combo during startup. 

What should these disks install exactly? Is it to be expected that I will have these issues, If I knew this was the case I would not have spent the $40 to get them because right now, it's looking like a waste of money. More importantly, how do I go about fixing it?

Thanks Jordon. It looks like I may have to do that, Im gonna start getting everything together to do it. In the meantime, does anyone else have any answers to my questions?

Hey Jordon, Just to be premptive, I called Acer and told them I was having issues with the recovery and requested a new set. They in turn, told me based on the information I provided they say these recovery disks are only to be used when you're recovering a system that ALREADY has an OS with the recovery partition installed and not to setup an brand new unallocated hard drive. I can see the logic, if there was only one option to restore but in fact there are two with these disks.

Restore operating system to Factory defaults (wipes C or Completely restore computer to factory defaults (data in hidden & system partitions are restored, All data on disk has to be wiped first. The second option requires that the HD is completely void of data and will not proceed until it is blank.  EDIT: So in fact it is entirely possible to do the recovery without an OS because otherwise it would not be an option. They are trying to get out of having to send out new disks. This has been so frustrating. Do you know what I can do to get another set? Don't worry, I am still doing the steps you outlined. The Windows media creation tool just finished setting up the USB, so I am making progress from that front.