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    Recovery disc

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Darker, Oct 8, 2010.

  1. Darker

    Darker Notebook Guru

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    I made recovery discs for my laptop (1410-11.6") that came with Win7x64
    A friend bought an identical laptop as mine.
    He formatted its harddrive and installed another OS. Now he wants to put the original Win7x64 but he does not have the recovery discs, nor the recovery partition.
    If I install on his system the Win7x64 from my recovery discs - will it be accepted? Or at activation I will get into trouble by having mine activated on another system... :confused:
     
    Darker, Oct 8, 2010
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    It will be accepted as OEM activation is based on the SLIC Code on the motherboard not validated online by a server.
     
    weinter, Oct 8, 2010
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  3. Darker

    Darker Notebook Guru

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    Thank you Weinter for the quick response!
     
    Darker, Oct 8, 2010
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    Yotsuba Notebook Evangelist

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    Your restore discs will work so long as his computer is the exact same model as yours. I've tried this myself and encountered no problems at all. Both systems were Gateway NV52 series notebooks. Exact same model for both systems, purchased one week apart.
     
    Yotsuba, Oct 9, 2010
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    Darker Notebook Guru

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    Now that you mention this, if I try the same discs on a slightly different machine: different CPU (743 instead of su3500), different videocard (M instead of MHD) with another HDD model (Toshiba/Samsung) will I face any problem?
     
    Darker, Oct 9, 2010
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    Mesmer88 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Sorry for piggybacking this thread

    Is there any way to revert to the original installation of Windows 7 x64? using the hidden recovery partition, i heard it's a key combination at startup.
     
    Mesmer88, Oct 9, 2010
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  7. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    It's Alt+F10 when you see Acer logo during BIOS POST (providing the D2D recovery is enabled in BIOS).
     
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  8. michael_recycled

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    I don't think so. The drivers are all the same.

    Michael
     
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  9. Darker

    Darker Notebook Guru

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    Thanx Michael, I hope so.
     
    Darker, Oct 10, 2010
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    These recovery images are made for an entire series of computers. HDD and CPU are irrelevant, and there are the drivers for the various add-on components including the usual half-dozen webcams and WLAN card also.

    Out of curiosity, I browsed through the recovery discs I made for my 1810. There is even the installation folder for Adobe Elements which is preinstalled on Packard Bell systems.
    So this recovery disc set would enable me to reinstall a Packard-Bell clone of my 1810TZ including the software usually shipped with that PB laptop.

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Oct 10, 2010
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  11. Darker

    Darker Notebook Guru

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    Interesting thing. I was worried that somehow MS will detect multiple OS installation on different machines and will ban my serial but I guess I was wrong, the activation checks the mobo and not the system.
     
    Darker, Oct 10, 2010
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    The key is not an issue, on request use that from the sticker on the back of your laptop and call MS to activate it.

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Oct 10, 2010
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