Acer aspire 5630 wont recognise any disk or accept my ipod

This indicates that you media (CD/DVD) cannot be read/is not recognised by your notebook drive: to make sure that you have a working drive, try inserting a know good CD/DVD. If this works, then you may have a compatibilty issue either because of the media used (eg. brand especially with Rewitable device) or the format of the data on your media (is your drive capable or reading both CD and DVD). You can assess the compatibility issue by using another computer/notebook to try to read your media.
Hope it helps: let me know how you go and good luck!

press the symbol to the left of ON/OFF button.

1.I thing you set the password for bios,So then only you got like that.
2.So diasble the bios password otherwise fomate your hard disk
3.Otherwise rest you CMOS battery.

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Put recovery disc in and while system is starting press F12 key repeatedly until boot menu appears then select boot from CD

http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/as_5100.html

here u can find latest bios...

purchase usb external ide casing and put your old ide hard disk and plug it to your aspire laptop

If all you need is to format the disk

1. Insert your XP disk
2. reboot you machine after cancelling all the installation set up details
3. Follow the instructions that follow as if you are installing Xp afresh (install, Accept terms,) then choose drive to install XP on (the one with current XP or else others) press delete (D) and follow the instruction to accept
4. After deleting choose Install XP and chose to format your disk the way you want Fast/Slow to FAT/NTFS

Please note formatting is deleting everything (EVERYTHING) on that disk preparing to store new information as a blank HDD i.e. you will lose everything on the disk viruses, bad stuff and all your valuable data on it

If you can't restored the driver, you should reload the operating system using Alt+F10 or using disks (not from windows, boot from disks)
In your case, it's look like you can't access the dvd in windows, i hope you can access in dos mode.