Acer Windows XP Home Edition

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Sparky_za

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Hi guys, hope someone can assist me here.

My sisters laptop HDD died. I have replaced the drive for her, but now need to install Windows. She only received the "Recovery CD" with her laptop, but obviously this does not help when the HDD with the recovery partition on it no longer works. Where can I get a Acer XP Home CD? I'm not looking for warez or keys, I have the original CD key on the CoA stuck to the bottom of the laptop. From what I can find on the Acer website, I need to pay to have another recovery disk shipped to me. Are there any other options?
 
If you have a legal key then you should be able to use regular Windows XP Home Install disk.
You will just need to download drivers off the net.
 
From what I have been reading on the net a regular disk will not work as the license key was allocated to Acer OEM. Well, either way, I don't have a Home Edition disk... lol... I use Linux, but can't convince her to go the same way.
 
I've done it on a few machines before as I like to do a reformat and remove the bloatware.

Never had Issues.

Only other option is to contact Acer South Africa.
 
I will see if someone at the office has a disk and give it a shot. Thanks for the replies.
 
Sparky_za said:
I will see if someone at the office has a disk and give it a shot. Thanks for the replies.
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If you have a valid serial, there is nothing illegal in borrowing an installation disk and use it with your own key (you will have to run activation anyway...).
The problem is that I haven't seen a -home version cd- for a while...
 
I think is have a home cd at the office somewhere. Send me a pm in the morning to remind me and will check. Maybe can create an ISo file and upload to Dropbox for you.
 
The key on the COA was not the one originally installed on the laptop. Acer (and other brands) use a generic key locked to their motherboards.

Get hold of a XP Home CD, use the key underneath & install. Windows update should find most, if not all, of the drivers for the machine.

I see you're in Fourways. Give Acer a call and ask them how much they charge to 'master' the drive. Acer is in Sunninghill.
 
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T-Man said:
The key on the COA was not the one originally installed on the laptop. Acer (and other brands) use a generic key locked to their motherboards.

Get hold of a XP Home CD, use the key underneath & install. Windows update should find most, if not all, of the drivers for the machine.

I see you're in Fourways. Give Acer a call and ask them how much they charge to 'master' the drive. Acer is in Sunninghill.
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I gave them a call this morning, but they seem to be a bit full of bulldust around this. If all else fails though I will have to go their route.

I have one of the Acer Aspire One netbooks which also came with XP Home, but as I said previously I use Linux, first thing I did was format it. Should have made a backup first... Ah well, hindsight is a wonderful thing...
 
Just a quick thank you to rtayob. The uploaded disk worked perfectly. Just finished installation and loading all the patches.
 
Same problem form France

perez said:
rtayob can you share the link to me also pleassseee
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Hello,

I'have the same problem. My disk crashed and I don't have any recovery. I'm looking for a xp home edition acer incorporated. Could you share me the link to download ?

Many Many thanks !
 
ponder said:
Have a look here http://forums.mydigitallife.info/forums/5-Windows-XP-Previous-MS-Operating-Systems
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They have a tutorial on how to make OEM version XP install cd's for all the major brands that will pre-activate XP based on the SLP marker in the BIOS. Its legal and very simple to make. They also have a tutorial to make a all in one XP DVD that activates all the OEM's. This single DVD detects the BIOS SLP marker and then activates the correct OEM. I made the DVD version a while back and it works a treat. Both disks are for branded machines only. Non-branded machines will result in XP being installed as a 30 day trial.
 
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