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    Aspire One erecovery cd

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by ron.p, Apr 5, 2009.

  1. ron.p

    ron.p Newbie

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    Hi. I bought my wife a used aspire one w/ 160gb drive and the person I bought it from wiped the disk including the recovery partition and installed an unactivated version of Vista on it. When I get it, I will wipe it again and I have a legit copy of xp to put on it, but I was checking on the necessity of the erecovery software.

    I can purchase the erecovery cd for $20 from Acer, but do I really need it? What does the erecovery cd provide?

    Thanks!
     
    ron.p, Apr 5, 2009
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  2. Full-English

    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    The recovery CD's Acer provides will basically restore your aspire one back to the factory default, like new. They include all of the drivers and software that the computer came with. Some of it usefull, a lot of it just bloatware.

    If your going to put a legit copy of XP on it, and have the disks to reinstall if need be, I wouldn't bother spending the money on the disks as you already have your own form of backup in the XP disks.
     
    Full-English, Apr 6, 2009
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    ron.p Newbie

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    Excellent, thanks for replying.
     
    ron.p, Apr 6, 2009
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