Recovery disk for Acer Aspire 5580

Hello everyone,

Last week a bought an acer aspire 5580 laptop. It had windows vista home edition installed. But i needed windows xp so i formatted it and installed windows xp with service pack 2. Now i heard that i should have made a recovery disk . But how can i do it in windows xp. The acer site says i should use eRecovery software but its for windows vista. How can i make recovery disk in windows xp ?

This is my 1st laptop so i am totally newbie. Please gimme some ideas and suggestions.

thanks

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arman

 

Your XP disc is all that you've got. If you want some type of recovery disc with drivers and the like, purchase a copy of Acronis True Image and save an image of your hard drive and burn that to a DVD or two.

If you are talking about making the recovery disc for a Vista installation that is an entirely different matter. You'll probably have to use the recovery partition to reinstall Vista, make the CDs, and then go back to XP.

 

Thanks for helping .

But i have another question..

My friend said there is a chance that the laptop might hav problem in booting in the long run (weird cases). Maybe due to BIOS error or some sort. And he said i need the recovery disk to fix this prob. Is it correct ? What do u suggest to avoid these sort of problems ?

I can use my winxp cd to boot the pc and then format+setup new os. Should this be enough ? Do i still need any sort of recovery disk ?

Thanks again.

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arman

 

hiya, if you want to do a factory restore, press alt +f10 when u see the white acer screen, mine did a restall without needing the back up disk.

 

this reply is to kimmy76,
kimmmy76 u saved my life, i thank u very much
alt+f10 u r a genius, i cant thank u enough,
i own a computer repair shop and so stupidly i give garantees and i had a laptop to fix (acer aspire 5580) which didnt even run windows, i just wanted to tell u that i really really appreciate ur help btw alt+f10 is only for acer or for others too and for future reference where did find this key thing from i would really appreciate it if u tell me, thanking u again,
SeMo

 

Good Day!
can someone plz.help how to fix my problem?here goes:
my laptop(acer aspire5580) was bundle with vista home premium so for me not to format the hard drive, i deceided to buy a new hard drive and install windows XP SP2. i can boot only in "SAFEMODE", but when normal boot up, it always hang.
does the bios version have something to do with it?
thank you in advance for any help/suggetion that you will give....