Help restoring to a new hard disk

Hi, My ACER 5630 (centrino duo) has been showing signs of hard disk failure

Most start ups. it runs checkdisk,

sometimes (about 1 in 5 it wont boot at all

so, I have bought new Samsung 2.5" hard disk (160GB) for it

I have a set up of recovery disks, (DVDs) which I made use the the provided Acer tool when the computer was new out of box. I know these recovery disks work perfectly becuse I have tested by making a restore from this disks, back to the factory new condition, with the original hard disk still installed, but the problems persist (I do think the hard disk is the issue).

So I bought a new hard disk to replace the original but, this is what happens with the new hard disk

The disk fits perfectly, it sits in the cradle same way as old disk and connects identically.

On boot up if I go to the BIOS (F2) it is detected correctly

the Recovery DVD starts running fine, asks to select language, warns it will wipe Disk C, but then.... nothing...

it does not progress, it does not start formatting the C drive, or writing to the new disk

I thought the new hard disk was faulty, and the supplier exchanged it fo another one, but it does the same.

So why is this process failing? why can I not run recovery DVD disk to a newly installed hard disk?

any ideas?


GUY

 

anyone have an idea?

 

Use any tool to format the drive first and only then try recovery disks.
It's not needed (at least normally) but since it stalls there it may be helpful.