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    Ferrari 4005: Which recovery disk is WinXP on?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Smashy, Apr 23, 2006.

  1. Smashy

    Smashy Notebook Consultant

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    I've done factory restore on my Ferrari before, but I will be reformatting again and I would prefer to do a clean reformat instead of a factory restore. Which disk would I use to install WinXP? I've checked out each disk, but being the novice that I am, I don't see anything on any of them that looks like a bootable version of WinXP.
     
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    since you would like to do a clean install. use a win xp installer instead. just be sure that the version of win xp you will use corresponds to the version of your oem win xp license so that you can effectively use the license key found at the underside of your machine chassis.
     
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    This usually does not work. The key is OEM and the disk will likely be a retail version. I have tried this several times before and it never worked.

    You would need an Acer OEM XP disk - which does not exist.

    If you right-click on 'my computer' and select properties you will see an OEM logo. That means your key corresponds to an OEM install disk.

    I would use Dino's technique.
     
    lewdvig, May 7, 2006
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  6. Drio

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    Thanks for the link, had missed that one!

    In the meantime you could search this forum (or notebookforums.com) for the user Bitbasher. Apparently he has much more and certainly more in-depth knowledge (mote than me, that is) about recovery partition and re-installing with a fresh OEM XP using the registration deails of your copy


    Cheers

    Drio
     
    Drio, May 8, 2006
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