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    ACER AS1694 WLMi Disappearing Partitions?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Chumly, Nov 12, 2005.

  1. Chumly

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    Hi all,

    Some whys about my ACER AS1694 WLMi. What 'cha think?

    -Why did it come formatted with FAT 32 instead of NTFS?
    -Is this explanation correct about Pqservice?
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=11584
    -Why don’t the ACER OEM recovery disks that came with the laptop give you C, D & PQservice?
    -Why don’t the ACER recovery disks that I was prompted to burn the first time I turned on the laptop right out of the box give you C, D & PQservice?

    Can you explain this scenario please?
    1) When I first looked at the HD configuration on my new ACER 1694 it had three partitions all FAT32. These were C, D & PQservice. I did not want FAT32 for XP and I did not want three partitions, so I set about changing to NTFS and reducing the number of partitions.

    2) I used Partition Magic 7.0 to merge all three partitions and change to NTFS, but when the system rebooted it failed to restart due to corrupted boot files. I did a Goggle search and the Eldergeek has experienced this with Partition Magic http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_05.htm

    3) I then used the ACER OEM recovery disks that came with the laptop. This disc set gave me a couple of small Windows XP error prompts at the end of the install, but otherwise seemed to work. But when I looked at the partitions there was now only C & D and no PQservice. Why?

    4) I then used the ACER recovery disks that I was prompted to burn the first time I started the laptop right out of the box. It worked fine with no error prompts. When I looked at the partition configuration this time, there was still only C & D and no PQservice. Why?

    5) Again I used the four ACER recovery disks that I was prompted to burn the first time I started the laptop right out of the box. Again it worked successfully with no error prompts but now when I looked at the partition configuration there was only C. There was no D or PQservice. Why?

    6) I then used Partition Magic 8.0. This successfully changed the HD from FAT 32 to NTFS.

    P.S. I always turned off all unneeded applications like anti-virus, automatic updates and system restore and defragmented the HD before and after.
     
    Chumly, Nov 12, 2005
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