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a friend of mine asked to reinstall his Asus notebook. He didn't want Vista anymore so I installed XP. Re-partitioned the hdd (no more recovery partition). Everything went fine except I cannot make LAN card work. I created a question for that. And I talked to Asus help desk but it didn't help so we decided to go back to Vista.

I have the original Recovery DVD for his notebook. With files like ASUS.SWM and ASUS2.SWM. But I do not know how to use this DVD to reinstall his notebook.

Did I mention that his DVD drive mostly doesn't work?

Update1

I tried to boot from it but got a message:

Windows could not start becuase the following file si missing or corrupt: 
<windows root>\system32\hal.dll Please reinstall a copy of the above file.
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  • helpful halfway competent IT friend FAIL Jan 15, 2011 at 3:25
  • Those DVDs are specific to computer models.
    – digitxp
    Jan 15, 2011 at 3:39
  • @digitxp: I have the notebook and its recovery DVD
    – Radek
    Jan 15, 2011 at 3:51
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    Can't you boot from the recovery DVD?
    – Nifle
    Jan 15, 2011 at 11:33
  • @Nifle: DVD driver doesn't work at all times but more importantly there is an error. See update1 for more details
    – Radek
    Jan 16, 2011 at 1:44

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See Creating Windows OEM recovery DVDs with Windows AIK.

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