Is it illegal to borrow XP recovery disk? And will it work??

[Five_Shotz]

Hi all,

I brought an Acer computer a couple of years back and now want to
reformatt HDD and reinstall windows XP, which came pre loaded on the
machine, and start fresh.

My problem is I have lost Disk 1 (system disk i think) and Disk 2 is
majorely scratched and wont load. SO what I was wondering is could I
borrow a friends system and recovery disk and use my product key (OEM)?
Would think work if I was to use a Dell recovery disk (OEM) and my key?
And would it be legal????? I understand that I would have to use a WIn
XP HOME OEM version the exact same as what I have now.

Also when I reformatt and install XP again would it do anything to my
second HDD? This is a seprate drive NOT a partition! I have backed a
lot of stuff up to that, opossed to burning countless DVDs and want to
make sure it wont automaticlly go deleting anything off it.

Thanks in advance

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You need to contact Acer support and order their
recovery CD. Your Acer Product Key will only work
and activate with the Acer recovery CD.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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:

| Hi all,
|
| I brought an Acer computer a couple of years back and now want to
| reformatt HDD and reinstall windows XP, which came pre loaded on the
| machine, and start fresh.
|
| My problem is I have lost Disk 1 (system disk i think) and Disk 2 is
| majorely scratched and wont load. SO what I was wondering is could I
| borrow a friends system and recovery disk and use my product key (OEM)?
| Would think work if I was to use a Dell recovery disk (OEM) and my key?
| And would it be legal????? I understand that I would have to use a WIn
| XP HOME OEM version the exact same as what I have now.
|
| Also when I reformatt and install XP again would it do anything to my
| second HDD? This is a seprate drive NOT a partition! I have backed a
| lot of stuff up to that, opossed to burning countless DVDs and want to
| make sure it wont automaticlly go deleting anything off it.
|
| Thanks in advance
|
|
| --
| Five_Shotz

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You can only "borrow" recovery CDs if the recovery CDs were made especially
for t he very same model as yours. You can not borow recovery CDs from a
different manufacturer nor from a different model. It just will not work!

AS for legal. unknown????