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I recently bailed someone out when they goofed XP on an older Socket A eMachines model by downloading trash to run. I'll put it in those terms. Since the system was bought new without any disks from a retail store I informed the parent that the advice on what to buy or what should be included was too late there.

The option provided by tech support was a link for download of the iso images to see the system restored according to the customer information as well as product key and serial since that was a first owner system there. But I ended giving the kid an SP1 recovery disk knowing that any restoration would get trashed again soon enough.

The recovery partition was already gone when trying to restore it to factory first at the time. The drive had been split up with a failed install of Pro on the first partition while the partitially running copy of Home was on the second one created. Forget recovery there fast enough. On a used system you will likely want to see a fresh clean install anyways for the best results.

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