pre-installed vista home premium

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Vista Home Premium came pre-installed on an Acer Aspire L3600 I've bought.

I am NOT getting along with this OS at all and am thinking of installing XP
on the PC. But having shelled out hard earned bucks for Vista I'm loathe to
bin it for ever, at least for the time being.

Is it possible to do a factory restore, copy the necessary Acer material
before uninstalling everything bar Vista, and then copy/burn the OS to an
external drive or DVD and reformat the PC for a XP install, the idea of
course being to have Vista available just in case I want to do the reverse
some time in the future, i.e. reformat and install Vista again?

Regards,

Bill
 
Vista Home Premium came pre-installed on an Acer Aspire L3600 I've bought.

I am NOT getting along with this OS at all and am thinking of installing XP
on the PC. But having shelled out hard earned bucks for Vista I'm loathe to
bin it for ever, at least for the time being.

Is it possible to do a factory restore, copy the necessary Acer material
before uninstalling everything bar Vista, and then copy/burn the OS to an
external drive or DVD and reformat the PC for a XP install, the idea of
course being to have Vista available just in case I want to do the reverse
some time in the future, i.e. reformat and install Vista again?
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Sounds like a plan. If your system came with a "restore disc" then
you're already there. If your system has a "restore partition", it
will also have instructions (somewhere) on how to burn that partition
to DVD and make your own restore disc.

Once you have that disc, you WILL need to see if Acer has provided XP
drivers for your machine. Don't move forward without those.
 
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