Official Windows XP Recovery image

Here is the .torrent to download the 2 iso files of the original Windows XP installation for the Acer Aspire One model 150.

Image from Canada, so you can choose between French or English.

Image done with Acronis True Image.

 

Sorry btw for the slow seeding. The DL is 8gb and I have a max upload limit of 10gb per month, so I must seed from my job, during the week-day only.

If anyone here from Montreal with unlimited bandwith want me to burn the whole thing on DVD and seed it on the net, it will be really great!

 

You could probably decrease the size of the images if you remove pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys from them.

You do realize that if this is what i understand it to be (a ghost image of your preinstalled windows partition) it is possible to extract your windows cd-key from this file. Eventually your key may be banned from downloadings service packs and such from the windows update site or it may fail WGA validation.

 

you do know how easy it is to crack xp right?
not that i condone that just saying

 

Anarethos,

First, a big thank you to you.

Would it be able to upload it tom other servers as I had being trying for the past few days but unable to download?

 

is it possible to change the language to spanish? or qhere can i download the recovery xp cd in spanish? thanks

 

It is not an image of my personal Windows XP installation, but the image of the original Windows XP installation from Acer on A150 model.

Sorry for the slow upload, but the image is 7gb and my monthly upload limit is 10gb and at 25$ per exceding gb, I am only uploading whail I am connected at my job, during the day.

 

today i will put on rapidshare English RC2 version of recovery

 

Good new. I finally seeded a full copy.

Avaiability is currently 2.965. So if people continue to seed, it wil become easier to get it.

If one of the person who dl it completly can put it on the net, itwill be good.

Don't forget that my version s bilingual (French AND English), good for Canadian/Europe (France, Belgium, etc.)

 

Could you be a little more specific? Is the image from a never-booted A150? Is the image of the recovery partition or the OS partition? Did you boot at least once in order to install Acronis True Image, or did you run True Image from some external source?

The A150 ships in a state where windows is not fully installed, and steps are taken upon the very first bootup to complete the process. If you booted even once before you made the image, the image will be much larger than it needs to be.

If the recovery process is run, then once again windows is in that not fully installed state until the first bootup after the recovery completes. This is the ideal image to obtain.

Or perhaps an even better image to use is the image in the recovery partition, if it can be somehow be used if located somewhere other than in the recovery partition.

 

I booted the A150 until it asked me which language I wanted. I then turned it off.

I booted from my usb key with BartPe/Acronis and made a full image of a never installed Windows XP.

Once the image is reloaded on the computer, it will ask for the desired language and then complete the first/original Windows XP installation.

The recovery partition will be recreated by the image, so eRecovery will works. Same thing for the ALT-F10 at boot.

 

I guess I can do that, I can also upload it to my hosting account?

 

Cool, Thanks. So, the Acronis image contains two partitions, both the recovery and the OS? That would explain the size of the Acronis image.

Thanks again!

 

Has anyone tried this yet to recovered their machine?

I also took Acronis True Image and with a Acronis bootable USB stick saved only the recovery partition as an image.
The partition shows up as a FAT32 4.88GB in Acronis and the actual image file created is only 3.62GB. I just did it this afternoon.
But I haven't had the guts yet to just wipe out the entire drive and then see If i can just reload the rescue partition and then get XP to reinstall cleanly again.

 

I downloaded your images and the few times I can get it to boot from cd- i get into acronis and choose restore and it gives me the message that xp1 is not the last volume in archive?please help...as I would like to restore my aao to stock...tia

 

I am having the same problem as ethics. Did anybody get this to work? When I insert the second dvd into the drive while in TrueImage, TrueImage sees XP6.TIB as a proper file no problem but it refuses to load from XP1.TIB on DVD 1.

 

I must confess that I never tried to restore from the DVD I made.

What I reccomande to do is :

Copy all TIB files to a USB key/USB hard drive.
Boot from the DVD but restore from the copy of the TIB files which are all in the same folder.
I sould works, because it is what I did. If it doen's works, it mean that one of the files became corrupt while creating the ISO files (hope not!)

 

I'm not to font of these isos Scanning them with bitdefender told me they where infected with a generic trojan.

 

Heuh? A trojan in my images? Curoius, I made them on a clean machine.

Can you tell me which file is infected please? I will look into that. It MAY be a keygen I used for some softwares inside the BartPE bootable image, but they are, for the most of them, false positive.

Thanks

 

Dvd1.iso=>BARTPE.ISO=>PROGRAMS/ERDC2003/COMMON.DLL
Dvd1.iso=>BARTPE.ISO=>BUILDER/PLUGIN/ERDC2003/COMMON.DLL
Dvd1.iso=>INSTALLER/COMMON/BARTPE.ISO=>PROGRAMS/ERDC2003/COMMON.DLL
Dvd1.iso=>INSTALLER/COMMON/BARTPE.ISO=>BUILDER/PLUGIN/ERDC2003/COMMON.DLL
Dvd2.iso=>BARTPE.ISO=>PROGRAMS/ERDC2003/COMMON.DLL
Dvd2.iso=>BARTPE.ISO=>BUILDER/PLUGIN/ERDC2003/COMMON.DLL
Dvd2.iso=>INSTALLER/COMMON/BARTPE.ISO=>PROGRAMS/ERDC2003/COMMON.DLL
Dvd2.iso=>INSTALLER/COMMON/BARTPE.ISO=>BUILDER/PLUGIN/ERDC2003/COMMON.DLL

All above files are Infected with: Backdoor.Generic.56286 according to bitdefender. I don't think it's a false positive.

:lol: I got this recovery image because I'm looking for the AAO's screensaver. But I'm not successful getting it http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2170