Can't reformat hard drive

I have made the recovery discs for my acer aspire 7551-3464 and have installed my 500gb wd hdd from my dead hp laptop.I insert recovery disc 1 into the disc drive and windows will boot up with my old stuff from the hp system and when i run the format program from inside wondows it will always say it fails to reformat the hdd,why is this?

 

Duke, IF you want to format the entire Hard drive, I would DL a win 7 ISO and create a DVD, (Which can be found here)
G73/74/53 Series Driver and Application Reference
Then boot from DVD (make sure your Bios is set to boot from the DVD drive first)
Installing and reinstalling Windows 7
See Using the Custom installation option and formatting the hard disk.
Are you trying to do a clean install of windows?

 

Is your machine set up to boot from the optical drive? Many people take the ODD out of teh boot sequence to speed things up a bit.

Be sure to back up your personal stuff, a format/reinstall will likely erase the entire hard drive.

 

How do i get into the bios to check that it is set to boot from dvd drive first?

 

Would have thought F1, F2 or Del

 

yah, keep a close eye on the startup screen that pops up when you first turn on the machine, you'll see a note there telling you how to get into the BIOS.

 

you might not even have to change any bios settings. usually on boot you get a quick option to press a key to enter bios or another one to enter a boot menu. try the boot menu and select cdrom.

 

got it to finally work,looked on google on how to get to boot bios for acer laptops then just had to hit f2 then was able to change dvd to boot first .