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| 467394 | 2006-06-30 01:05:00 | Hi all Just after some quick advice please. I have a friend who has been given an Acer Aspire T300 desktop tower. It is currently running Windows XP Home with a COA on the side of the box. She did not get any discs with the system and I have rung the person who gave it to her and he said that he hasn't got any discs for it either (even though he bought it brand new). It is supposed to come with system recovery discs and this needs to be reformatted and the OS reinstalled before my friend can use it. The question is - will any XP Home disc (I have one here) do the trick using the COA on the side of the box or is this likely to stuff the system up? The Acer website is a joke - had to use IE cos it wouldn't work for me under Firefox - and I have not received any 'support' from the e-mail I sent them. Thanks in advance! |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 467395 | 2006-06-30 01:11:00 | Theoretically any XP Home CD would be fine with the COA. | somebody (208) | ||
| 467396 | 2006-06-30 01:20:00 | yip, best one to use one straight from microsoft or from someone who had a custom built computer, and just copy the cd so long as it's home and not pro..... that is not a branded cd, it may come with other junk that wont go. | sweetinnocence (7223) | ||
| 467397 | 2006-06-30 01:34:00 | Theoretically yes... however this isn't always true. I did the same sort of job for a friend who lost his recovery CD's for a Packard Bell iXtreme machine. I re-installed Windows XP Home using my disc and his COA key, but this wouldn't work. There is a way to get around this by simply calling Microsoft and activate the software via phone. cheers chiefnz |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 467398 | 2006-06-30 01:43:00 | The usual warning ... get the motherboard drivers or use one of the driver saving programmes before you do any reformatting. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 467399 | 2006-06-30 02:04:00 | Hi all Thanks for your prompt replies. I have saved both the drivers folder and the I386 folder onto CD already so I have those backed up in case anything goes wrong. I knew that it should work theoretically but that doesn't really mean too much!! Will go and give it a whirl!! Cheers again. |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 467400 | 2006-06-30 03:33:00 | Using a XP SP1 cd fromsomeone won't always work. There are at least three versions of XP around. Upgrade Retail - Full (I think) OEM The only way to get your key to work, is to change the versions around to match the key to the correct version... which i'm not telling on how to do. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 467401 | 2006-06-30 04:05:00 | You should be able to copy the i386 directory back, and run the setup in that, shouldn't you? Or does XP make that difficult? W2k has two "setup" programmes (WINNT and WINNT32) , one of which works from a DOS boot. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 467402 | 2006-06-30 06:51:00 | Using a XP SP1 cd fromsomeone won't always work. There are at least three versions of XP around. Upgrade Retail - Full (I think) OEM The only way to get your key to work, is to change the versions around to match the key to the correct version... which i'm not telling on how to do. Hi I have an 8 in 1 Windows XP installation disc so all I had to do was pick the OEM version and it worked like a treat. :D For anybody that is interested - The PC is up and running with a freshly fomatted hard drive and fresh instal of Windows XP and all drivers installed. Cheers all. |
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