Acer Recovery Disks don't work on M3470G with new hard drive

[grassyman]

My hard drive went out on my Acer M3470G, so I bought a new hard drive and ordered the eRecovery discs from Acer, and I got them installed, and then it needs to reboot, and then I just get the Windows Error Recovery Screen and the only options just restart the computer and end back up at the Windows Recovery Screen. I have read several responses and nothing I read has worked, and everyone else seems to have a laptop, and I have a desktop.

 

[RealBeast]

The recovery disks only work if you have the recovery partition, which was on the old HDD. You need a full install disk. Download the same Windows 7 image as your version from HERE and burn to a DVD. Install the OS, drivers, and windows updates then activate with the key on your laptop sticker.

 

[grassyman]

I downloaded that iso file to my buddy's laptop, and tried to burn the file on a DVD, but the laptop won't burn the file to the DVD. I have never dealt with this kind of thing before.

 

[RealBeast]

I downloaded that iso file to my buddy's laptop, and tried to burn the file on a DVD, but the laptop won't burn the file to the DVD. I have never dealt with this kind of thing before.

It is pretty simple and can be done by Windows directly or with ImgBurn.