Hi all,
I have an Aspire 5050 laptop which has been setup for dual boot XP/Vista but the XP partition has died of viruses (its not my lappy
).
The person who owns it has tried to recover the OS from an a 2cd set they made when they first bought it but I think because they then partitioned and installed the free vista upgrade it has all gone a bit wrong.
The PQSERVICE hidden partition which I believe to be the only way to recover the system has been added to disk management as a normal drive and no longer works, they don't give a system restore cd out with them so we are out of ideas.
Anyone got any good ideas or ways round this? It has all its legal keys and although we could probably find an XP and clean install it we would rather use Acer recovery.
Thanks,
Whoop
I have an Aspire 5050 laptop which has been setup for dual boot XP/Vista but the XP partition has died of viruses (its not my lappy

The person who owns it has tried to recover the OS from an a 2cd set they made when they first bought it but I think because they then partitioned and installed the free vista upgrade it has all gone a bit wrong.
The PQSERVICE hidden partition which I believe to be the only way to recover the system has been added to disk management as a normal drive and no longer works, they don't give a system restore cd out with them so we are out of ideas.
Anyone got any good ideas or ways round this? It has all its legal keys and although we could probably find an XP and clean install it we would rather use Acer recovery.
Thanks,
Whoop