Acer Aspire 5315 Recovery Failed! Need Help Please!!!!

Problem-- When you Turn on my acer 5315 laptop a blank black screen comes up after the acer logo appears. If you press any key a loud beep noice sounds.
Solutions I have Tried-- Well i started with using the preloaded restore to factory defults and I got an error message at about 99 percent. The error was- Restore Failed- Reason oxd0000001d - or close to that. I figured maybe the backup partiton was screwed up so I pulled out the old recovery cd's I purchased from acer. The same thing showed up. I then figured i should call acer. I called and they told me to use the acer post disk formatter. I tried that and it still did not help the problem. I have no where else to turn so thougt maybe you guys could help.

By the way This is some of my system specs--

Acer 5315-
Hitachi 80GB hard drive-
Windows Vista Basic

Feel free to ask me questions and please e-mail me if you would like-- [email protected]

Thanks in advance for any help. I want to ask you guys before i turn to buying a new hard drive...

I think i'm bying a hard drive. but can i get a few ideas first..

 

It's possible that your HDD is damaged. Can you pull it out and test it on another system? Also, does the laptop has it's stock RAM or did you add more? If you did, I suggest you remove the new RAM and leave it with the stock one.

 

I can not test it in another. And I have not added ram. What ways can i test it without another computer to try it in

 

So can anyone help me???

 

Please help!!

 

I agree with ATG, HD damaged but who knows... Boot on a live cd and test it
If i remember well Ultimate boot cd do that as well as some linux live cd

 

Thanks for all the help. I ended up buying a new hard drive off e-bay for 40 bucks and it works fine. I took the old one apart and found the disk had some wear marks on it. probably the problem.