Recover original Windows install?

[moral_hazard]

I'm debating selling my s10 - really like it (in fact, better than my sony laptop), but having 3 different computers is just too much (always end up wondering where files are, etc).
I have a 320gb 7200rpm drive and ram is almost maxed, so it should sell for a decent price on ebay.

When I got the machine, I made a norton ghost backup (thinking that this would work for recovery), but it doesn't - seems that files are missing when I restore the image to the hard drive. Is there an alternative way to recover the ORIGINAL XP installation? I do NOT want to sell it with an illegal XP installation or OS X installation on it.

The only method I have read about was something with creating an nLite CD using the i386 folder. Will this work considering that when i tried to restore of the ghost image it did not boot?

Thanks

[SilverZero]

If you have the original i386 folder on the ghosted image, you should be able to make an installation CD with it. See the method by twiceover on how to do this with nLite, because there are 3 extra files you need to create as well (you probably saw that topic already, just search for nlite i386 or something). It won't be a restoration per se, but it will be a fresh install of the licensed OS that came with the S10, so it will be like restoring it to factory condition minus the bloatware.

Oh, and it won't have OKR.

[moral_hazard]

Fine with me. I just want the thing usable enough to sell. I get the feeling people wouldn't mind buying it with OS X, but legally that's pretty iffy.

[SilverZero]

You could probably sweeten the deal by installing Windows 7 on there as well (dual boot). Advise the buyer that it'll time-bomb itself next year, but I think some people might be interested to at least play with it. There shouldn't be any legal issues with that, since it's a free download now anyway. Just a thought.

[moral_hazard]

The i386 method worked, i have a disc after 10 minutes. I'm going to test it out now (not wiping OS X yet - wanna make sure the recovery disk works completely before wiping).

Do you think it would be worth it to throw in my "extras" when i put this up on eBay? I have the original 80gb HDD with an external enclosure, as well as a slimline USB CD drive (i got the drive for free and bought the housing for 15 bucks shipped).

EDIT: oh, and a case too...i might almost be better selling the stuff separately or just keeping the external HDD and CDROM, but I feel like alot of people looking for netbooks would like to have (A) a backup external and (B) a CD-ROM drive to use...

[SilverZero]

I'm thinking I've earned that slimline. But, yes, at least the optical drive would definitely be a good add-on, might get you a few extra bucks, but would definitely make your item more desirable than the others it's up against. The HDD, I'm not so sure about, but it certainly wouldn't hurt. You might be better off trying to sell that one separately. Just my opinion.