Recovery disc?

[gbpot]

Hi,
I was clearing out my daughters laptop, full re-format.
No prob, i had a product recovery disc. Formatted hdd, inserted disc and waited.......
problem was the disc was knacked, scratched to hell.

Now i have my laptop which also runs XP.....so can I create a new recovery disc from my laptop, to use to install os on daughters?
Thanks in advance, and apologies to those with greater knowledge for stupidity....
Gav

 

[shugie]

Usually the recovery disk is supplied by the manufacturer of the computer, and is specific to that computer and operating system.

I doubt that you can use your copy of XP to make a recovery disk, it won't have the files with the hardware drivers for the machine, and is quite likely to be a different version of XP to the OEM one that came with the computer, so the key won't be recognised.

What is the laptop?

 

[cookie]

Hi,
i had a product recovery disc. Formatted hdd, inserted disc and waited.......
problem was the disc was knacked, scratched to hell.

one would normally format the HDD after inserting the disc. so the disc is partially ok then?

just seems a bit odd.


i didn't tell you this, but you could, theoretically, use your other disc (and key) to reinstall, as long as it hasn't been used and activated for some time, and you won't need to use it on the other PC for a similar amount of time. those that really know, won't say, but some say that period is 165 days.
it is not a legal way to do it, but you do have a license, so it could be seen as kind of morally ok. ish. sort of.
of course i'm not condoning such a course of action, just mulling what might be theoretically possible

XP will have most, if not all of the relevant drivers. if not, just download from manufacturers website. motherboard and video will be the most important.

 

[gbpot]

Usually the recovery disk is supplied by the manufacturer of the computer, and is specific to that computer and operating system.

I doubt that you can use your copy of XP to make a recovery disk, it won't have the files with the hardware drivers for the machine, and is quite likely to be a different version of XP to the OEM one that came with the computer, so the key won't be recognised.

What is the laptop?

toshiba satellite L30 so quite old.

 

[gbpot]

i didn't tell you this, but you could, theoretically, use your other disc (and key) to reinstall, .

Would'nt bother about that at all, trouble is I don't have the disk for the other laptop. preloaded only when I got it.

 

[Dansin]

If XP is a no go then stick Ubuntu or one of the other free Linux flavours on to it. It'll run a lot faster and all the software is free. I switched our server, desktop and laptop over a year or so ago and haven't looked back. I've got some software that I need, that will only run on MS so I just use Wine in Ubuntu which works flawlessly.