If it's a replacement you do not have a recovery partition and will need installation media and a USB optical drive if you don't image the media and write the ISO to a USB flash drive. If you need additional guidance or a visual aid, watch this video. If you press Alt+F10 or ESC and get into system recovery you have a recovery partition. That said many laptops use a recovery partition today. Make sure you also update xp to the very latest service pack and get the new updates from microsoft.I am not 100% certain of Acer ships these with a recovery partition or DVD. You need to make sure the mobo chipset drivers, network adapter drivers, usb drivers and display/video card drivers are installed and you are done. example like if you had an intel network adapter and it cannot be found on the acer website then do a google search for your network adapters model (drivers) or either go to the manufacturer website like I stated above. If you cannot find all of the drivers on the acer website you may have to find some of the drivers from the hardware's manufacturer website. I highly doubt win xp will pick up the laptops network card drivers automatically. You will need a second computer to get the drivers from on the net, as you probably will not have any network connection available due to no drivers being loaded.
You will have to do a full format then install windows xp and after it has completed installation and you get on windows for the first time you will then need to get the drivers on the manufacturers website.
Secondly what order do I need to reinstall the drivers in? Any idea where this info can be found? I need to format and reinstall windows on my acer aspire 3690 and need some advice.įirstly I need to know whether it is okay to put windows xp onto a machine that came with vista? It is only 512mb so I think it would run better with xp as it uses less memory to run, but I'm not sure if this will have any other implications.
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