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    Aspire 5050 notebook

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Chrisgee39, Feb 27, 2008.

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    Chrisgee39 Newbie

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    I installed a 120gb hard drive & a fresh copy of winxp with a deffrent product key code to my acer aspire 5050 notebook,and know i'm wounder'ing if i can still use my recovery program to set the default settings from when i first bought it? (I have the product key on the bottom of my labtop,but it didn't come with the windows disc) :confused:
     
    Chrisgee39, Feb 27, 2008
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    Is there anyone out there that can help chrisgee ?
     
    Chrisgee39, Feb 28, 2008
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    Im try'ing to use my acer recovery to restore my default settings,but i installed a new hard drive,can it be done
     
    Chrisgee39, Feb 28, 2008
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    offcourse not......unless you have a dvd/cd backup\
     
    babisgr, Feb 29, 2008
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    Thank you babisgr. But check this out,I had made a backup dvd disc,and it took two dvds.The problem is,that I have the first half of the backup disc, but lost the second half. Is there any way i can get the 2nd half online, or could i just get the acer backup disc from acer and us it?
     
    Chrisgee39, Mar 1, 2008
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    penrynTech Notebook Guru

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    Acer should be able to provide a copy of the disks that you need. Unfortunatly they charge for it. Since you have bought a copy of XP with a new license, the easiest thing to do is to install that and then install the required drivers and programs that came with the machine. They can be downloaded from here
    Hope this helps
     
    penrynTech, Mar 17, 2008
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