0xa0000002 acer aspire 5315 recovery after new hard drive. Replaced the hard drive. got the system and recovery discs. system disc asks for language, then kicks out and asks for recovery. recovery disk warns about c drive being wiped clean. click ok, then get the error code.

It looks like your hard drive's failed, you don't say which Windows you're running ? Have you tried a recovery disc?

Could be the hard drive controller is bad.Sometimes bad ram can cause errors as well

no you do not need recovery disc..you can sore the backup in your hard disk only...but store it in other drive..than the system drive.

To start the system recovery:

1. Restart the computer.
2. When the Acer logo appears on the screen, press the Alt and F10 keys repeatedly.
3. If you are prompted with a Microsoft Windows boot screen, press the Enter key.
4. After the system recovery application has loaded, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

If the ability to reinstall from the previous method is not available or fails, recovery of the Operating System will need to be from Recovery Media.
Note: If your computer does not have an internal optical disc drive, an external optical disc drive will be required in order to recover the Operating System using Acer Recovery Media.

1. Restart the computer.
2. When the Acer logo appears on the screen, press the F12 key repeatedly to enter the computer's Boot Menu.
3. Press the CD-ROM drive eject button and insert the disc labeled System CD.
4. Close the CD-ROM tray.
5. Refer to on screen instructions to select either CDROM or USB CDROM.
6. The computer will boot from the Acer Recovery Media
7. When prompted for the Recovery CD, remove the System CD and insert the Recovery CD.
   Note: If there are multiple Recovery CDs, please insert the first of the Recovery CDs.
   
8. After the system recovery application has loaded, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

Note: If you do not have a set of Acer Recovery Media, you may purchase the set online from the Acer Recovery Media Order Form. If your computer is unable to run the Acer Recovery process, or errors occur during recovery, please contact Acer support.

If the computer is not more than 3yrs old, you can get the disc from Acer Tech Support.

Some manufactures place a recovery partition in the hard drive. Startup the PC and tap the F5 key. Acer sometimes makes it F10, but industry standard is F5.

My 0xc000000c "Restore Failed" prompt seemed to be the result of disk surface damage on the restore disk. After burning the restore disk to a new disk, the restore proceeded normally. Try making a copy of the original restore disk to a known good blank disk.

If the hard drive tested out ok (?) then I would burn a copy of memtest (free just google it) boot from it and test the memory. I would suggest though that the issue is the hard drive or possibly motherboard

Try with another brand of disk; the Matsushita UJ870 drive of our 5315 burn my Sony CD's but not my Philips CD's (my Compaq V2617LA with an older Matsushita UJ840 drive has burned Phillips CD's in the last two monts)... Remember: CD and DVD lassers are different. I think because of that, i haven't see problems with Sony, Philips and Samsung DVD's... only with CD's...

need to test hard drive for defective sectors first ,your cd rom drive seems ok because you getting error when it asking for second cd.