Acer Aspire 5610. Media failure and operating

with a new hard drive , ti will not have an operating system installed
turn thr computer on and hold down the delete button until the bios screen comes up
click on the boot tab and set boot priority to first device c
put the cd in the cd drive
switch off the computer and then restart
the boot will now read the cd and reinstall the operating system
when installed go back into the bios and change back to first device --hard drive

You need to re download the drivers for your crystal eye web cam. Go to this link: http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers

When you get there, select "Notebook"...then select "Aspire". Then scroll down and select Aspire 5610. Then where you see "Operating System", select your operating system (ex: XP, Vista, or Windows 7). It will then show all the drivers for your operating system...scroll down until you see the camera driver software and then download and reinstall it. Hopefully this will help...good luck.

To start the systemrecovery:

1. Restart the computer.
2. When the Computer 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 orfails, recovery of the Operating System will need to be from Recovery Media. Ifyou do not have a set of Recovery Media, you may purchase the set onlinefrom the manufacturer. Note: If your computer does not havean internal optical disc drive, an external optical disc drive will be requiredin order to recover the Operating System using Recovery Media.

1. Restart the computer.
2. When the computer 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 Recovery Media
7. When prompted for the Recovery CD, remove the System CD and insert the Recovery CD.

Note: Ifthere are multiple Recovery CDs, please insert the first of the Recovery CDs.

1. After the system recovery application has loaded, follow the prompts to reinstall the Operating System.

Keyboard - Do you have the NumLock on?

From the ACER support site:

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

That is because XP has no compatible drivers. Re install Vista or Win7 to fix this problem.

A "media test failure, check cable" means your hard disk failed. The bios can not locate the boot sector of the hard disk to begin loading the operating system.
"Operating system not found" means windows can't load because the Bios can not find the operating system (because the hard disk failed).

This is pretty much an unrecoverable error in terms of fast fixes. You can take the hard disk to a data recovery service if you need to retrieve important data or files.

If you receive the Blue Screen, that means the Laptop is having a trouble with

• Operating System/ Sub System failure
• Software Device/Application Failure
• RAM
• Hard Drive

You have to include the BSOD message. Please do it next time so that I can give a more appropriate answer.
If the blue screen doesn't remain, here is what you have to do to Disable the Automatic Restarting.

• When the system boots you have to go to the Operating System Menu.
• Most PCs and LAPs has the Default key "F8" or "F11". Check the keys and hit until you are directed to an Operating System Choice menu.
• Select "Disable Automatic Restart on a System Failure" and Hit Enter.

Include the BSOD message in the Next Comment

first checkout that your harddisk is detecting on startup or not.

Your hardirve is damaged or your partition is corupted to fix this problem reinstall windows and make a new paetition or check inside your computer to see if a cable from the hardrive is desconnected.

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