Acer 5633 WLMI recovery discs

Hi guys.
First post here and I need some help.
I bought the above laptop over a year ago with Vista Home Premium installed, with the usual partition including the recovery software. Did I make my recovery discs? No, I did not and subsequently had a hard drive failure that resulted in the partition being lost too. I managed to put an old copy of XP on which has been fine upto now. I just bought an xbox and want to put vista on my computer so I can use the Windows media centre.
Is there any other way I can get the recovery software without using Acer directly? They want £55 for them, and I'm not willing to pay that when a new laptop is about £400.

Cheers

 

There's no way to get the original recovery software without going through acer.

One way around this would be to see if anyone you know has some vista disks and use these to install vista. Or you can buy a copy of the media like this from ebay and use the key from the underside of your laptop:

Ebay

You could always see if microsoft can ship you the media aswell.

 

Ahhh goddammit!!
It's a good way to save money (ie not give you a disc) and a good way to make it (ie charge over the odds for something I already bought!)

Cheers anyway!

 

I've just remembered this thread here, not sure if it will work, but worth a shot:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=338373

Basically, it's an upgrade iso from acer, may work for you.

 

Hey thanks
I'l have a look today.

 

Please report back and tell us if it actually work. I have it but I'm unable to test it in the next few weeks.

 

Hey, my gf's family just bought an acer 5735 and im making recovery discs for it the now (a mistake i'l make just the once!). Do you think i can use these in my computer with no problems. I'm fine with putting my lt back to factory settings

 

I'm not sure if it would or not, but worth a try. The worst that can happen is it does not work!!!!

Might be worth going to acers site and downloading all of the drivers you need for your laptop, then you've got them to hand.

 

Hey! Big mistake, the discs were good at formatting my C: drive but they didn't work at putting everything back on. Had to get someone to recover my computer. Cheers anyway