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Date Posted: 16:51:59 11/21/07 Wed
Author: chris k
Subject: ooh ooh - could it be this easy

Cleaning out a kitchen drawer I found restore cds for my sons laptop -

He has an acer 5000 series with Windows XP

I have an Acer 3000 series.

the restore CDs say for 3000/5000 series issued with a new Acer Windows XP computer -

SOOOO

my question is - Can I use these to get XP on my laptop instead of Vista??

Slinking away and crossing fingers

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[> I just asked DH, the resident computer nerd in the house, and he said it might work, or it might not work. It depends on how Acer set up the disc. The other issue would be the other software on your laptop. That might not be the same either. I personally have never used a "restore" disc. We've always built our own computers and had our own stand alone versions of all our software. So when we upgrade, we start from scratch installing everything by hand. -- JAG Junkie (Ronda)--sorry, I'm afraid I'm not much help., 17:45:51 11/24/07 Sat [1]

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[> You will need to wipe your hard-drive first to re-format the harddrive - which will erase Vista. You can absolutely use the restore disk to then put XP on your laptop. Vista is far more demanding than XP anyway, so your laptop should run faster w/o it. -- RD, 23:10:18 12/01/07 Sat [1]

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[> [> and how exactly does one - wipe the hard drive?? -- chris k, 06:23:04 12/02/07 Sun [1]

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[> [> [> I think when you reformat, it erases it at that time. -- JAG Junkie (Ronda)--I usually let DH do that kind of stuff when we're having computer issues., 11:08:02 12/02/07 Sun [1]

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