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Can I get Windows XP Home disc FREE??

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DigitalCancer

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I bought a Gateway laptop awhile back, and just recently needed to format it. It had some CD-R's with it to make a recovery disc, which my wife never got around to. I had no choice but to format it, and so i went ahead and done so and put Windows XP Pro on it. Well, today i sold the laptop so i'm needing to format it at least back to Windows XP Home, which is the COA i have for it. I think, no problem and begin opening the 'Windows XP Home Start Here' thingy. Well, to my surprise, NO DISC!!! They did not give me a disc, so i am screwed, except for d/l'ing a copy which is what i'm doing this very moment. What i need to know tho, is there a way that i could persuade MS to send an OEM disc to the buyer of the laptop? I mean, its ridiculous cause i paid for XP Home and didn't even get a hard-copy of it. It didn't explain that i couldn't restore my computer w/o the restore discs. I thought i at least had the OS in the box. thanks for any help on this.
 
MS will tell you to call GW. You best option is to find someone you know that has OEM XP Home and burn a copy of it to use with your COA on the laptop.
 
Yes that's a hot deal, but in the OP's case it's only good if he has an old OS cd to insert during the install. 😛
 
Originally posted by: John
Yes that's a hot deal, but in the OP's case it's only good if he has an old OS cd to insert during the install. 😛
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most people do.

. . . anyway, it's the best i could come up with for this week [looks like you can get it for Tax AR] . . . compared with the hassle of dealing with M$/GW . . . and he isn't likely to get it anyway for FREE from them. 😉

🙂
 
Getting no disc stinks. I bought a system a while back and the only original hardware is the floppy drive so the restore CD is useless. *cough* torrents *cough
 
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