Reformatted my Acer Aspire E15 , but windows installer couldn't detect any drives after failing.

[cynatheus21]

Hi i recently acquired a 2nd hand Acer Aspire E15 E5-575G
it was a bit slow so i decided to reformat it , and while windows 8.1 was installing the laptop stopped at "getting files ready at 21%" and i had to restart it, now the windows installer says no device drive found, what should i do?

 

[rgd1101]

hard drive failed?

 

[cynatheus21]

hard drive failed?

i'm not good with techy stuff, i just reformatted as my friend to me to do so but then it failed now i got this problem. any suggestions?

 

[hang-the-9]

hard drive failed?

i'm not good with techy stuff, i just reformatted as my friend to me to do so but then it failed now i got this problem. any suggestions?

Replace hard drive, try the setup again. For basic use a 120 gb or so solid state drive is plenty, and would be about $40