Hi just got myself laptop from a m8 and would like to restore it to its original shop condition (before or if i decide to partition hard drive and install xp) have asked for recovery disks but he cant find them, so the question is can i do it and how?
have a recovery partition on hard drive and have tried to make a bootable dvd from it but it too large to fit on a norm blank dvd, have looked on the online manuel for the laptop but theres nothing about making a recovery dvd there also,
so is there a way i can do it?
if not no worries
info on laptop
MAKE – medion
MODEL- NO mam2100
O/S – vista home premium
CPU – amd turion x64 x2 1800mhz
RAM – 2gb
HDD -160gb split into two c boot: 130gb
d:recovery 20gb
OPTICAL DRIVE – dvd cd rewrite
also if there is no way to make a recovery disk would it be better to wipe vista and install xp pro on this laptop rather than split the hard drive and have a duel boot as ive noticed that vista is rather slow?