E-machines recovery disk

[Guest]

Just finished rebuilding a friend's e-machines PC. The only thing original
left is the hard drive, power supply and a few other parts that were able to
be salvaged after a bad experience of the Humpty Dumpty nature.

I have their original e-machines recovery disk, but have been told that it
may not work if it doesn't recognize the new motherboard as something
e-machine shipped. Has anyone ever tried to do this after repairing one of
these beasts? I have only rebuilt clones that came with the original Win XP
or 2000 disk and have never worked with a recovery disk from e-machines.

I don't think the customers would be terribly impressed if after spring for
a new MoBo that they also have to buy a new copy of XP. Any suggestions or
guidance folks?

 

[Alias]

Just finished rebuilding a friend's e-machines PC. The only thing original
left is the hard drive, power supply and a few other parts that were able to
be salvaged after a bad experience of the Humpty Dumpty nature.

I have their original e-machines recovery disk, but have been told that it
may not work if it doesn't recognize the new motherboard as something
e-machine shipped. Has anyone ever tried to do this after repairing one of
these beasts? I have only rebuilt clones that came with the original Win XP
or 2000 disk and have never worked with a recovery disk from e-machines.

I don't think the customers would be terribly impressed if after spring for
a new MoBo that they also have to buy a new copy of XP. Any suggestions or
guidance folks?

Sorry, but they're gonna have to buy a new XP as that restore disk is
tied to the eMachines motherboard.

Alias

 

[Kerry Brown]

Just finished rebuilding a friend's e-machines PC. The only thing
original left is the hard drive, power supply and a few other parts
that were able to be salvaged after a bad experience of the Humpty
Dumpty nature.

I have their original e-machines recovery disk, but have been told
that it may not work if it doesn't recognize the new motherboard as
something e-machine shipped. Has anyone ever tried to do this after
repairing one of these beasts? I have only rebuilt clones that came
with the original Win XP or 2000 disk and have never worked with a
recovery disk from e-machines.

I don't think the customers would be terribly impressed if after
spring for a new MoBo that they also have to buy a new copy of XP.
Any suggestions or guidance folks?

Depends on the model. With some models the restore disk is BIOS locked, with
some it isn't. All you can do is try it and see.

 

[paulmd]

Just finished rebuilding a friend's e-machines PC. The only thing original
left is the hard drive, power supply and a few other parts that were able to
be salvaged after a bad experience of the Humpty Dumpty nature.

I have their original e-machines recovery disk, but have been told that it
may not work if it doesn't recognize the new motherboard as something
e-machine shipped. Has anyone ever tried to do this after repairing one of
these beasts? I have only rebuilt clones that came with the original Win XP
or 2000 disk and have never worked with a recovery disk from e-machines.

I don't think the customers would be terribly impressed if after spring for
a new MoBo that they also have to buy a new copy of XP. Any suggestions or
guidance folks?

The restore disk is a ghost image that only works on a narrow range of
emachine motherboards. You can use a real copy of XP with that emachine
sticker. You may have to do the phone activation routine. Pain in the
butt, but it works.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info guys - if it works - fine. If not, then I'm not out
anything.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Just finished rebuilding a friend's e-machines PC. The only thing original
left is the hard drive, power supply and a few other parts that were able to
be salvaged after a bad experience of the Humpty Dumpty nature.

I have their original e-machines recovery disk, but have been told that it
may not work if it doesn't recognize the new motherboard as something
e-machine shipped. Has anyone ever tried to do this after repairing one of
these beasts?

That's correct. The eMachines recovery method will work only on the
eMachines motherboard.

I don't think the customers would be terribly impressed if after spring for
a new MoBo that they also have to buy a new copy of XP. Any suggestions or
guidance folks?

Advise the customers to get competent technical advice ahead of time,
before they commit to such a radical change.



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Bruce Chambers

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