Acer 3690 Help

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i bought an acer 3690 and it has 512 ddr2 ram and vista home basic. 80 gb hard drive, 33 gb for vista and 33 for data and other is hidden partion

I'm new to the whole acer movement and moving to another brand thing so i am lost.

i want to to turn it back tp xp instead of vista. but incase i mess up, does the acer default factory cd installs it back to basic home ?

and any acer users who know if the drivers will work for xp also. and reinstall e recovery program also

and i also don't have an home vista basic cd also. so why i want too know if the default factory cd will turn it back into vista if i mess up

and not tech wise sorry guys ^^; can a laptop cd-r burner be upgraded to a dvd burner ?

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Don't know about the drivers but you have the capability to make disks to restore the system just as it was from the factory.

Do you see the "Empowering Technology" icon? If not go into Programs and look for it. When brought up to the desktop there are several options listed and make restore disk is one of them. Usually will take two DVDs or 4-5 CDs. If things don't go well for you you can get the drive clear and then run the disks you made to get back to start one.

I have a 5610 and that's the way it works. Think your's will be the same.

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:) thank you for your advice. I'm gonna try it soon. backup and make restore default disc in partion 2 and on cd's :P so I'm nervous to turn it to xp, but its better then vista :D so just save the fine the drivers by name and save it on my sd card or paration 2 also :) so wish me luck on upgrading to xp. can't i believe i got downgraded to vista :P:D

and also learning on how to restore from a partion.

but not yet reinstalling yet, I'm moving to another house to no connection, but thanks for the advice.

so keep you posted on my situation :)

love this site now, so friendly and very helpful, i recommended to many people

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well i'm on my acer laptop :)

i turned it xp and it was faster :D no more waiting 1-2 minutes to load now, now 15-20 seconds.

thank you for your help mudd :)

all i did was downgrade the intel motherboard 7 + version to 6 + and everthing worked well :)

so all i need now is another 512 or 1gb ram and i'm pretty much happy :)

also partioned another section for backup incase i have to resinstall an go through all the pain and time to fix it again, thank you piriform forums for teaching me about partioning also :D

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well i'm on my acer laptop :)

i turned it xp and it was faster :D no more waiting 1-2 minutes to load now, now 15-20 seconds.

thank you for your help mudd :)

all i did was downgrade the intel motherboard 7 + version to 6 + and everthing worked well :)

so all i need now is another 512 or 1gb ram and i'm pretty much happy :)

also partioned another section for backup incase i have to resinstall an go through all the pain and time to fix it again, thank you piriform forums for teaching me about partioning also :D

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