Setting new hard drive up on acer 5315 series

You would have to set your new drive in bios as first booting device

This generally indicates a bad HDD...but enter the bios and make sure first boot device is NOT set to Network in the bios or maybe the hdd has gone and its looking for a operating system to load....
Check cable connections (reseat),
Check jumpers on hard drive for Master/Slave or CS settings,
Check BIOS settings for boot order,
And lastly have your BIOS rescan your HD or
Reset your BIOS to defaults.....

To enter the Bios (see your computer screen at power on, your manual, or manufacturer's web site) you probably have to press something like the DEL Key, or one of the F Keys at boot up time, but the actual Key varies from model to model. Many computers refer to this as "Entering Setup", Setup is just another term for the Bios.

Setting your Bios to any safe default settings may also fix this for you.

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Here is a youtube video how to change the boot order:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrk0t8IuY88

In the BIOS Setup program, the user can choose to boot from a hard drive, optical drive, removable drive, or the network.
The default setting is for the optical drive to be the first boot device, the hard drive second, removable drive third, and the network fourth.
Remember to save your settings, when leaving the bios.
If the boot order change when you power off, the cmos battery must be renewed:



The battery is a watch type Cr 2032, and cost a few dollars.
Remember to place the new battery, as shown on the picture.

Good luck

Hello,
This issue may occur if one or more of the following conditions exist:

• The basic input/output system (BIOS) does not detect the hard disk.
• The hard disk is damaged.
• Sector 0 of the physical hard disk drive has an incorrect or malformed master boot record (MBR).
  
  Note Some third-party programs or disk corruption can damage an MBR.
• An incompatible partition is marked as Active.
• A partition that contains the MBR is no longer active.

To solve this, try one or more of the following solutions:
Verify your BIOS settings.. Verify the computer's BIOS settings to make sure that BIOS lists and recognizes the hard disk.The documentation that came with the hard disk should aid you in doing so.

Use Recovery Console..Use the fixmbr command in the Windows XP Recovery (or relevant OS) Console to repair the MBR of the startup partition. Be sure that a virus isn't present on the system and that their aren't any hardware errors as this could prove fatal to your hard disk.

Hi!
Sorry, I hope I was not too late. You can fix priority order issue by restoring the default value of BIOS. You can do that by doing the steps below:
1. Reboot your Acer Aspire 5315 notebook.
2. Wait about 30 seconds until you see the Acer logo on your laptop screen.
3. Press the "F2" key on the keyboard to enter the Acer Aspire 5315 laptop BIOS menu.
4. Select the BIOS option "Load Default Setting" using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Then press "Enter."
5. Press the "F10" key to save the BIOS that is reset to the factory default settings.
Hope this helps.

That is because it was designed for Vista not the obsolete XP. There are no hard drive drivers suitable in XP.
Re install Vista or install Win7.
Hope that helps.

go on u tube type how do i restore and rest factory settings for my acer (your model number) laptop i did it in my acer netbook and it worked on my second attempt theres loads of instruction videos on u tube

Before you attempt it, make a couple of changes in the BIOS to hopefully work around a few problems that might crop up.

"BIOS setup (f2) and set the hard drive to ATA compatible."
I would go ahead and disable everything in the boot heading besides the DVD/CD.
You also need to disable caching module before you change the drive SATA settings.

When you power up the laptop press F1 or F2 or "del" key to enter in bios setup.
Then check your harddisk is detect or not?
Then also make sure SATA option is disabled in bios.
Then go to boot option and set first boot device as your harddrive.Then save settings and exit.
But if you even not able to enter in bios then you have reset bios settings and Refix RAM memory .
For that open back cover fo laptop and find cmos cell on motherbord pull it for 10 minutes so all settings of bios goes to factory defaults.
Let me know if you need more assistanse.
Thanks.

If it has a hard drive password, you must remove it before you will be able to restore your OS.