A friend of mine has an acer aspire SA60 desktop which became infected with spyware or something. She took it to a friend of hers to fix, however instead of using the recovery cd's that came with it, he installed xp pro(the pc came with home edition on it) & as it turned out it was a volume license copy of pro he installed & the license has now expired. Is it possible to reinstall xp from the recovery cd's or does she have to buy a retail version ?
Disk 1 is says system cd, disks 2,3, & 4 say recovery.

Edited by astroboi9 on 03-27-09 11:43 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.

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Ok I have reinstalled xp using the recovery discs but it did not ask me to reformat the drive or whether to use FAT32 or NTFS file system, instead it installed using the FAT32 file system. Is that something to be concerned with?

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No you should not need to be concerned with it. I would suggest you use the command to convert the file system from FAT32 to NTFS.

To convert a volume to NTFS from the command prompt

1. Open Command Prompt. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
2. In the command prompt window, type: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

For example, typing convert D: /fs:ntfs would format drive D: with the ntfs format. You can convert FAT or FAT32 volumes to NTFS with this command.

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So if I understand correctly, I can convert the XP drive, in this case drive C from FAT32 to NTFS without any ill effects or in other words I won't need to reinstall? & how long should it take for a 20gb hdd?

Thanks.

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Yes. It should take approximately 10 minutes or less. This is advisable since NTFS is more stable in comparison to FAT32. Best to do it right after a fresh install as there is a slight possibility the drive could get corrupted. Consider however each time I have converted the file system from FAT32 to NTFS it has worked without issue.

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