ACER Aspire 4736 recovery question .. help !

Ok so my laptop ACER Aspire 4736 is one year old and has lot of virus (eats my bandwidth when I connect to internet !).I had just one drive C: of 300 gb which contained both my OS (Vista) and data (movies , pics , songs , files).

So I decided to split the original partition into C drive of 28 gb just for OS and D drive of 270 gb to hold all my data.I did this using EASUS partition master.Noiw i want to format C drive , reinstall vista and drivers but keep data on D drive intact.

My question is - if I use ACER recovery using ALT F10 to do a clean factory install from PQSERVICE , will it wipe out both C and D drive data , abolish the new partitions and revert back to the original 300gb partition ? Can the new C drive alone be formatted before fresh OS installation and data on D drive be safe ?


Please help me out guys.Anyone with experience ?


- Desperate


PS - Remember when I first got the laptop only drive C existed , not C and D.That is why I am worried.Factory default might revert the two drives back to one and thus destroy all data ?!

 

Hi,

if these data are of any importance, then you should have backed them up to some external media. Better safe than sorry.

Apart from that, 28 GB for a Vista partition is terribly tiny.

Michael