Have an Acer which need a reinstall, but I don't want to use the recovery partition.

Basically, Acer for a reason any installed this copy of windows with a buttload of bloatware, used FAT32 instead of NTFS, and added a recovery partition which literally takes half of the hard drive. No physical reinstall disk, of course.

What I am wanting to do is to install a new copy of the same version of Windows from a vanilla install disc, but I did not posses disc. My questions are:

1 - ordinary copy, non - OEM activate again using the old product key?

2. is it legal to download an .iso of the Setup from somewhere disk to install it? (If not, I might be able to locate a friend with a copy...?)

Anti-malware programs are a good tool to use, but they are not 100%.

About file system conversion, see these two pages:

http://www.NTFS.com/quest3.htm

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

Since you already have a safe way to reinstall XP, I just do it. No need to download the .iso that could end does not properly.

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