get a clean vista installation disk from pre-installed acer

hi,

i bought an acer aspire 8930G, with pre-installed vista (should be OEM) hp and a lot of useless additional software. the note is top, the thing i hate is the pre-installed os. now i want to run a clean vista installation.

reading in several forums about that, but not found the right way to do. so i have some questions.

1. is it possible to create vista installation disk (any kind of it) from data on hidden partition (or other data from the note)?

2. how the data for this disk has to look like?

i won't buy some extra disk, because i have already payed for it as buying licence!

for question nr 3 please check this...

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=201600

3. is it true what cappuchok wrote about bogus licence keys that not working with clean install?

thanks in advance, lim

 

IIRC the vendor should give you an install disc for the OS on your laptop. if you didn't get one, contact Acer and have them ship you one.

 

Acer doesn't ship the laptops with disks. You have the hidden recovery partition instead, which contains the OS, plus all of the other junk acer likes to put on. If you contact acer for some disks, all they will provide you with is backup disks which you can make youself through eRecovery and they will charge you for the privilege.

I'm not sure if you can make a clean install disk through the hidden recovery partition, I've never heard of anyone doing it, but that doesn't mean to say it hasn't been done. Have you tried uninstalling all of the junk it came with. All the games, Empowerment technology software and programs. When I uninstall stuff I use a program called revo uninstaller, it gets rid of most of the stuff left over when you uninstall a program.

After this you can always tweak vista to make it a bit quicker, there's a good thread on NBR about it HERE.

About the product key being bogus, I highly doubt Acer will ship laptops out with bogus keys, they would have been dragged through the courts a long time ago. I've used my vista disk from my desktop to clean install vista several times and the key underneath works fine.

 

In order to do a clean install, get a DVD image off your preferred semi-legal peer-to-peer site, burn it, and use the key on the bottom of your laptop.
(all versions of Vista are contained on one disc - the license key determines your features)
Note that it may require over-the-phone activation with Microsoft.

Just to be safe, though, burn those recovery discs, as well as the Drivers & Utilities disc to add things back on like your card reader, fingerprint reader, graphics card, sound, etc. without having to gallivant around the Internet for drivers.

 

Exactly what he said! 'Somehow' get a vista installation disc and use the product key on the bottom of the laptop.

You can also install a 64bit OS instead if you wanted to by using the SAME product key. I've succesfully done it with my acer 5920. You will have to activate it by phone...but this is usually automated with a machine talking on the other end.

 

Hold on a second! I thought the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vista had different license keys, except for Vista Ultimate.

 

They do if you buy the vista from retail, but for some reason the licence key on the laptop works for both.

Maybe someone knows the exact reason why this works? Is it something to do with the fact that it is an OEM version?