If there was no media, then perhaps there was a hidden partition?
Contact Acer for directions. They should supply you with some means of
recovery whether it be via disks or the recovery partition.
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"mrmustard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:111BDE37-D09C-4B04-AD95-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I purchased my Acer Aspire 5634WLMi about 18month ago.
> Although I was running AVG Antivirus, my Acer was infected by a virus to
> the
> extent it rendered it useless. I had no choice but to delete everything
> from
> the hard drive, all programs and windows to clear it with the intention of
> then doing a clean reinstallation.
> My laptop came with preinstalled Window XP Media Center Edition 2005
> XPM01.012 . The Product Key is labelled on my laptop so I have that.
> Unfortunately as my laptop did not come with any installation discs so I
> have
> now lost the lot!
>
> To get me up and running again, I have now installed Windows XP Home
> Edition, from disk (as this was all I had available on disk)
>
> Can I now download Windows XP Media Center To enable me to gat back the
> original operating system I paid for?
>
> --
> Cheers Andy..............