Need System Recovery for eMachine Model T2742

I have an eMachine model T2742 and no system recovery disk. I contacted eMachine parts and have been told by more than one person there that no system recovery is available for any machine manufactured before October 2004.

To be clear, the part is not available from eMachine.

Does anyone know where I might obtain a system recovery for this computer. I am willing to pay the same $25.00 via PayPal, personal check or money order to anyone who can furnish an original or a copy.

Moderator: There is nothing illegal about my request, no violation of copyright. The system recovery I need will load onto only this model of e-Machine and will abort on all others. The license to run XP Home on this machine is already paid by eMachine.

 

Simplist way is to borrow or buy a WinXP Home OEM CD to do a fresh install. Make sure to retrieve your key by using something like Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder before reinstalling XP. Once done you will need to reactivate over the phone. There should be no problems. A bonus would be to create a slipstreamed XP Home CD with SP3. For the drivers try Driver Detective.

 

There's a problem with that solution. This machine was brought to me because someone had wiped out the existing software, system recovery and all, by installing from a retail XP CD using a key that was already in use on another system. It ran for 30 days and then Pffft.

So, the key that came from the manufacturer is long gone. I do, however, have the COA product key on the side of the case. Problem is, though, that I have tried using that key from other big-name systems with my OEM XP CD and it rejected that key as invalid. To be clear, I haven't tried that with this system but with other similar systems.

 

That statement may not be correct. To my surprise I used a emachine T2885 restore cd on a home built system , with totally different CPU. Did have to do a repair install due to different display chip, and did not try to activate it.

 

Just from my own experience, every time I've attempted to use an eMachines recovery CD on a different model eMachine, it aborted with a message that it wasn't intended for that machine. I knew this from prior experience; but, I figured I had nothing to lose so I tried on this computer with 7 different model recovery CDs and all failed.