I have an old machine i am giving away and decided to use the free upgrade disk sent to me back in 2007. It installed fine and I got SP1 on it and cleaned it up.
After everything was done I noticed the E-Machines recovery partition was wiped. Is this because I now have the Vista upgrade disk with the # on that for the COA? Not the sticker on the machine.....I had to activate it with the # on the upgrade disk. I can't figure out why it would wipe the recovery partition with the factory XP image on it. Will this disk work if the next owner needs to do an install? Guess so..
Have you heard of this happening with OEM upgrade disks? Thanks.
After everything was done I noticed the E-Machines recovery partition was wiped. Is this because I now have the Vista upgrade disk with the # on that for the COA? Not the sticker on the machine.....I had to activate it with the # on the upgrade disk. I can't figure out why it would wipe the recovery partition with the factory XP image on it. Will this disk work if the next owner needs to do an install? Guess so..
Have you heard of this happening with OEM upgrade disks? Thanks.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- The Terminator
- CPU
- Core 2 Quad
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte EP45-UD3P
- Memory
- 4X2GB GSkill 1066Mhz
- Graphics card(s)
- GeForce 9500 GT
- Sound Card
- Realtek
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung SyncMaster 932 bw 19" and Syncmaster 2033 20"
- Screen Resolution
- 1440 X 900 and 1600 X 900
- Hard Drives
- Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD WD Black 640GB
- PSU
- Corsair 750HX
- Case
- Lian Li PC-B70
- Cooling
- Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7
- Mouse
- Microsoft wireless laser mouse 5000
- Keyboard
- An old e-machines PS-2 (I have HUGE fingers and it works)
- Internet Speed
- 7 Mps