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    help reformatting acer 4315

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by slay, Mar 18, 2008.

  1. slay

    slay Newbie

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    Hey I see a bunch of threads on here about reformatting acers. I am having a b&$$% of a time reformatting my acer 4315. I use it for simple nothing provisioning at work and I want to get it to XP not Vista. Please help
     
    slay, Mar 18, 2008
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    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    i've had great luck in downgrading my os to XP... what kind of problems are you having??

    this site might help....
    http://soulpass.com/2007/11/10/inst...essional-sp2-on-acer-aspire-5315-2153-laptop/

    the biggest problem i see most people have reguard the SATA driver not being included in the winXP install disk. i used the SLIPSTREAM method when converting my pc, i would have used the floppy drive method but i have no floppy drive.

    i just followed the directions and had ZERO problems...

    the one suggestion i would make would be,,,
    make sure you have the xp drivers for your laptop downloaded and burned to a cd before you begin. especially if you don't have immediate access to another computer

    goodluck
     
    bigozone, Mar 19, 2008
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  3. slay

    slay Newbie

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    I'll give it a try thanks for the help
     
    slay, Mar 19, 2008
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