Hi
I have purchased an acer extensa 5230E notebook . It comes only with one DVD that named "Resource DVD" .when I turn on the laptop for first time , it start up with a black dos screen that was a GPL and COPYRIGHT agreement that was about inpus linux .I couldn't pass that screen and just inserted an old windows vista DVD and formated the whole hdd ! unfortunately I didn't know about the hidden partition I formated and was about 10 Gb ( I tought it is a gap on new hdd ) ! there isn't any windows logo attached to the surface of laptop .and the Resource DVD is about 2.8 Gb that just has the drivers for windows XP,Vista 32bit and vista 64bit and a utility folder which contains several apps that don't run and I think they run in Dos environment .So now I runs an old XP but want to know what happened ! Does my laptop shiped with windows OS ? what was that hidden partition (10 Gb) ? What is the Resource DVD used for without windows OS ? I got this laptop as a gift so I can't refer to the seller and Acer support site doesn't help enough .
So any help is appreciated .
I have purchased an acer extensa 5230E notebook . It comes only with one DVD that named "Resource DVD" .when I turn on the laptop for first time , it start up with a black dos screen that was a GPL and COPYRIGHT agreement that was about inpus linux .I couldn't pass that screen and just inserted an old windows vista DVD and formated the whole hdd ! unfortunately I didn't know about the hidden partition I formated and was about 10 Gb ( I tought it is a gap on new hdd ) ! there isn't any windows logo attached to the surface of laptop .and the Resource DVD is about 2.8 Gb that just has the drivers for windows XP,Vista 32bit and vista 64bit and a utility folder which contains several apps that don't run and I think they run in Dos environment .So now I runs an old XP but want to know what happened ! Does my laptop shiped with windows OS ? what was that hidden partition (10 Gb) ? What is the Resource DVD used for without windows OS ? I got this laptop as a gift so I can't refer to the seller and Acer support site doesn't help enough .
So any help is appreciated .