Acer Veriton M410 HD issues?

[edsopercng]

I've had 2 Vertion M410s go bad on me in the last week, windows not booting, chkdsk errors, etc. I received a new hard drive for one of them, and the Acer Post Disk Formatter won't recognize the drive. If I try to restore the drive to factory defaults, it blue-screens the PC. Any one else have a similar issue?

 

[G0AOZ]

Can you check the new HDD by attaching it as a secondary drive on another machine? Might also be worth running something like MEMTEST86 on the memory...

ROGER - G0AOZ.