netbook restore
 

anyone know where in the world i can obtain a version of "Windows XP Home Edition ULCPC"??

i need to restore my netbook, and it didnt come with any recovery discs or partition. it's a HP MINI 110-1030CA. I looked around HP's site and they want $25 for a stupid recovery disc which SHOULD have been included anyways, i dont understand why they didnt. so other than getting a copy from HP, what r some other ways of getting a copy of xp home ULCPC? i dont mind torrenting a copy as long as it works with the xp key on my netbook.

*cough* torrent *cough*

no need to cough, as i am using a legit cdkey, not pirated
and no i cant find any torrents for the ULCPC version, and im not sure what versions my key will work with thats y im asking here.

heck i think any version of the ULCPC xp will work, be it DELL, ACER, HP, etc etc.
i just need the ULCPC version.

buy new computer from store, use disc, return computer?...

You're screw, I tried to find ULCPC version also.. no luck.

That's weird. Almost all notebooks nowadays should come with a recovery partition.

nopeeee not netbooks and their tiny harddrives.

Look in one of the manuals/booklets that came with the netbook. There is a page in there that states what to do to restore it. I have the same the same netbook, and I remember reading something in one of the booklets. I'd go look for you, but the box is in storage.

i had an eeepc which fucked up and basically wouldnt allow me to login. basically did some searching and found a way to access some bios options...1 of which allowed me to do a complete fresh partition/reinstalling of the OS. do some digging and see if its the same case.

thanks, the box is right by me right now and i'll look into the manual and see what can be done.

There should be a recovery partition on it ... I can't remember if it's F10 or F11 (a little tipsy right now) ... Press it when the HP screen comes up before Windows loads ...

It's been a while since I had to restore my netbook (and I've since sold it) but I'm fairly sure I used an OEM version of XP Home and it worked with the ULCPC key. Go download a copy of XP Home OEM (not the corporate or retail or anything like that since keys are tied to specific versions) and try it out.

Since netbooks don't have a CDROM drive, you'll also need to try make a USB drive bootable with the XP files or buy an external CDROM.

so i took syee's advice, and it seems like an OEM version works.
so far, it hasnt asked me to activate it yet.

my acer one netbook has a recovery parition... well it used to until i deleted and installed a slimmed down version of XP :thumbsup: