Acer Aspire 1353XC Notebook

[Matthew]

I bought a Acer Aspire 1353XC Notebook for Christmas and I am very happy with it but, it is a 20Gb hard drive and it is partioned in half roughly, C drive is called Acer and the D drive is called AcerData.

I cannot find anything anywhere to tell me why it is partioned in 2. Do you think it will be safe for me to use Partion Magic to merge them back together or not.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by leggom

I bought a Acer Aspire 1353XC Notebook for Christmas and I am very happy with it but, it is a 20Gb hard drive and it is partioned in half roughly, C drive is called Acer and the D drive is called AcerData.

I cannot find anything anywhere to tell me why it is partioned in 2. Do you think it will be safe for me to use Partion Magic to merge them back together or not.

first question would be , what is in d ??????????

[kronas]

Originally Posted by leggom

I bought a Acer Aspire 1353XC Notebook for Christmas and I am very happy with it but, it is a 20Gb hard drive and it is partioned in half roughly, C drive is called Acer and the D drive is called AcerData.

I cannot find anything anywhere to tell me why it is partioned in 2. Do you think it will be safe for me to use Partion Magic to merge them back together or not.

usally the reason it is partioned is due to one part of the hard drive having all the drivers.

so if you were to reinstall the OS, the data would be used in conjunction with the restore cd.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by kronas

usally the reason it is partioned is due to one part of the hard drive having all the drivers.

so if you were to reinstall the OS, the data would be used in conjunction with the restore cd.

seems a bit excessive to use half the drive for backing up windows

@ leggom did the machine come with a proper windows cd or those stoooopid backup ones ????????????

[kronas]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

seems a bit excessive to use half the drive for backing up windows

@ leggom did the machine come with a proper windows cd or those stoooopid backup ones ????????????

it is, unless system restore is set at a high level of disk space.

my mate bought a pc, brand new from pc world and it had 3 partions on it, taking up about 23gb of his 80gb total disk space

[paulyoung666]

fair point about sys res , i just reinstalled me dads pc at the weekend , and it uses 4 cd's to reinstall it , what a nightmare , i think he is going to get a copy of winxp and bang that on instead , the restore discs take up nearly 4gb

[Matthew]

Some point that I forgot to add:
1. Both partitions are FAT32
2. C Drive = 8.85 GB 6.08 in use
3. D Drive = 9.75 GB 1.39 in use
4. I got about 4 disks for recovery
5. Drive D looks like it has back up files on
6. I only have 2.77GB left on my C to store stuff

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by leggom

Some point that I forgot to add:
1. Both partitions are FAT32
2. C Drive = 8.85 GB 6.08 in use
3. D Drive = 9.75 GB 1.39 in use
4. I got about 4 disks for recovery
5. Drive D looks like it has back up files on
6. I only have 2.77GB left on my C to store stuff

to save messing anything up then why not use the space on the d drive , or have look through manual and see if you can remove the backup stuff , you could with me dads , or go and buy a copy of xp , format the drive and start again

[Matthew]

There is nothing in the manual so I might just install XP again. Thanks for your help.

[rdhw]

Originally Posted by leggom

I bought a Acer Aspire 1353XC Notebook for Christmas and I am very happy with it but, it is a 20Gb hard drive and it is partioned in half roughly, C drive is called Acer and the D drive is called AcerData.

This is a very sensible arrangement: to separate the operating system from your own data files. If you have a disaster with Windows, and have to reformat drive C:, your data files are preserved on drive D: without any special action being needed on your part.

For this to work, you have to deliberately store your personal files on D:, rather than the default "My Documents" on C.

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by rdhw

This is a very sensible arrangement: to separate the operating system from your own data files. If you have a disaster with Windows, and have to reformat drive C:, your data files are preserved on drive D: without any special action being needed on your part.

For this to work, you have to deliberately store your personal files on D:, rather than the default "My Documents" on C.

My Documents
My Movies
My Pictures
My Music

Its a bit of a bind to change the drive but worth it. My PC has a 10Gb C WXP partition, CD on D, DVD on E, 40Gb on F as data and 100GB on G as Video. There is a 10Gb section that is unpartitioned as I was going to go down a dual boot route, but I think I will bolt it onto the F drive.

[Shaun]

I use Tweak XP to alter the registry keys that point windows to the "My Documents" folder, that way it goes straight to Drive I and saves my documents in the right folder.

I believe that there is a free demo version of Tweak XP available on the net somewhere, may worth a look

[Matthew]

Thanks for all your help I am now sorted with what I am going to do.

[Terminal]

Originally Posted by leggom

Thanks for all your help I am now sorted with what I am going to do.

Hi leggom, I'm an ACER laptop engineer. If you have any problems drop me a line and I'll try my best to help.

It won't hurt to remove the partition, just don't lose those recovery CDs! Put them in a safe place.

Here is everything you need to know about the ACERDATA partition
http://www.acersupport.com/notebook/...rt_650800.html

Hope it helps

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Terminal

Hi leggom, I'm an ACER laptop engineer. If you have any problems drop me a line and I'll try my best to help.

It won't hurt to remove the partition, just don't lose those recovery CDs! Put them in a safe place.

Here is everything you need to know about the ACERDATA partition
http://www.acersupport.com/notebook/...rt_650800.html

Hope it helps

looks as though that is an offer you cant refuse , and who said this site was no use