Acer 3000/5000 need bootable system recover cd

Hi friends I'm having a bit trouble with my acer lapton, Ill explain :

well as everybody whom owns one acer systems knows, it comes with a recovery system named eRecovery... its easy to recover by pressing ALT F10 , but my problem is : I have replaced the hard drive, so the ocult partition(pqservice) is no longer available... I cant recover using it, but Im able to with the recovery disks, thats the problem I have the 3 disks(wich coitains the image) but I do not have the bootable disk(also named disk 1 but its the system disk), if someone here want to help a desperate man lol or knows where I can have it download please let me know...
at moment Im running linux ubuntu on it, but I want to have my Win XP Home legal and registered back working only way is restoring the system cuz acer unfortunately do not send win xp cd separate...
one more thing :
the 3 disks I have contain norton ghost image, so I made myself a bootable disk with norton ghost, works well, when I tried to open the acer imagem it asked me a password I tried six zeros 000000 , thats the default password for erecovery but unfortunately not the password to open the images , so its protected Ill need the first boot system disk...
thanks a lot in advance sorry for my bad bad engish but I guess u can understand and maybe help me
best regards

 

I'm a bit uncertin based on your writings, however from what I understand you want to image your new hard drive using the image you have 3 DVDs, created by Norton Ghost.

There are a few days to do this. Boot to a Ghost Floppy, and it should have the option to restore from a DVD. Once its restored it should boot, considering it imaged ok. There should be no need to run Acer System Recovery.

If you cannot do that, connect your laptop's HD to a computer using a enclosure, and do it that way using Norton Ghost.

 

yeah dude I have the 3 acer disks but the image is password protected so it need 1 system boot cd which will restore the system and I need to download this cd to restore my system or try to find other way...

 

I was in the same boat as you were. I have a 5100 that had no recovery cd's. I installed ubuntu and ran that for almost a year and forgot and wiped out my small recovery partition. I phoned Acer and told them a half trued story. Told them my system crashed from a worm and took it to a private dealer to have it fixed. My 3100 came with reccovery cds but not my 5100. Tech support from acer said they would send me recovery cds but at a charge of $80.00 American plus shipping and handling. After a brief argument with him, I come to the conclusion that his head was thicker than my wall. What I had to do was go out and find a Media center Edition OEM (downloaded from torrent) and install it and use the key on my notebook and that worked ok for me.

 

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Hi dude, yeah man ... acer support is so bad... I borrow wind XP OEM cd from a friend and installed it.. inserted the key and its running, updating via windows update.. but I have to download all drivers and software from acer website by the way at least its working