How can I do a recovery without the recoverypartition on an old Aspire one

Jojo69

I want to fix an old Aspire one 725 for an old Lady. She worked with this for more than ten years and has Problems with new faster Laptops and the different MS-Office version. On the Aspire one was WIN8.1 and I don´t know which office has been installed. I don`t have the Recover Partition, because the harddrive had crashed. If I install WIN8.1, it will find the Key in the BIOS? Ich have no Lizence. Who knows the OfficeVersion on an Aspire one 725 of the year 2012?

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/682892/how-can-i-do-a-recovery-without-the-recoverypartition-on-an-old-aspire-one

The Microsoft Office 2012 version is Office 2010 and you need the 25 digit key for what she had with the original Office 2010 and then install Office 2010 and then insert the 25 digit key to register it with Microsoft. The Aspire One 725 has adequate 4GB ram to run Win-8.1 and even Win-10 Home, as the Win-10 upgrade is a free upgrade using the 25 digit key of Win-8.1 that the laptop has (this laptop would also run allot quicker and better with a 1x DDR3L-1600MHz - DDR3-1600 • CL=11 • NON-ECC • SODIMM • 204-pin • 1.35V • 2Rx8 • PC3-12800 type ram into this laptops 1x memory slot).

You need to do a Clean Install of Win-8.1 but I would do a Win-10 Home Clean Install by using a Rufus 3.22 boot USB, but download the Win-10 .ISO file from Microsoft Win-10 Download and then insert it into the Rufus 3.2 boot Win-10 installation process (as its quicker) and then get into the Aspire One 725 laptop bios and change the boot order to USB HDD as the first priority boot so that the Rufus 3.22 boot USB will boot and start the Win-10 installation. Do all the above as that will resurrect this Aspire One 725 and make it function allot better.

Jojo69

@StevenGen
Thanks for your answer.
Does it matter if I have no keys, not for Office 2010 even WIN8.1.
I installed linux because this works faster, but the old Lady can`t work with it.
I only have a 2 GB ram, so I think WIN8.1 will be better.
For using this old Office she needs a key, so she has to buy a new one?

billsey

Without keys you won't be able to activate Office on the computer. You can install the OS itself, but to use Office she'll need to purchase a new license is she can't find the old keys. That new Office won't look the same as what she was running before. :(

Jojo69

@billsey
thanks for your answer.
I installed the OS WIN8 and it works without a key. At this time it must be the Office 2010 Starter on it. If I buy a new key for Office 2010 it won't look the same?
But I think the differences between this two versions are not as big as office 2010 starter to all higher Version than office 2010.
She only needs word. And old people have problem when something don't works like they are used to.
I know office 2010 isn't supported any more and my be a risk for internet safty. She don't use the internet so much. But she needs her word.
So I will try this.