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I have an old Acer Travelmate 250 laptop running XP.
The wife has decided she wants to get online for access to a specific interest site and the Travelmate would be okay but it really needs to be restored to make things easy and quick for her to use.

I don't have the original restore disks unfortunately ... is there any other way to restore it?
 
It *might* have a hidden restore partition, accessed by running a built-in restore programme.

Another option would be to install Ubuntu Linux. There's a windows installer to make the task dead easy, and if all you want is web access on a nice slick machine then it's worth considering.

Linux isn't for technophobes, bbut equally it has long since lost its 'nerds only' status.
 
I suspect that there isn't a hidden partition as restore disks were originally provided ... somebody threw the box out :angry:

I would like to stick to Windows if possible to make it easier for me to deal with any problems she might have.
 
No recovery partition on the travelmate (usually F10 or Ctrl + F10 at boot) but it should have come with recovery CDs you can use these.
I'm sure you can make it "easy and quick" without restoring it to default XP which would take forever to install all current windows updates, SP2 or 3 etc. Just give it a really good software pruning and a spring clean. Open a 'Run' dialogue and type in Msconfig and shut down all unnecessary start up programs. Do a disk clean up and a defrag and it will feel like a new machine. You can find info on doing this on lots of sites via google.
 
I've done a prune, ran ccleaner and defrag but there is still something dragging it down.
 
Agree with Gary, although might be an outside chance of support on the Acer site.
 
neil_g said:
If its got a xp oem key stuck to it then just find a matching xp version disk
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It has but would I then have issues with Acer drivers etc?
 
Cheers, that might be useful anyway.
 
Was it XP home or Professional?
If its Pro, I have a CD I made up to reinstall on a (non Acer) machine of mine. I could let you have a copy rather than downloading?
 
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