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    Acer 5920G Arcade Partition

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by seanpr, Oct 24, 2007.

  1. seanpr

    seanpr Newbie

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    Hey all, I was wondering if the 3 gig partition that was created by Acer, which is supposedly for Acer Arcade, is something that is need to run my computer? I would like to delete it and use it to dual boot the new Kubuntu distribution instead of using a usb disk. I know the bigger partition is used with the d2d recovery utility but is there something important on the smaller partition? Thanks for your help.
     
    seanpr, Oct 24, 2007
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    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    Smaller partition need to quick boot your Acer Arcade (You can turn on arcade without turn on your whole system)
     
    bigspin, Oct 24, 2007
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    seanpr Newbie

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    If I get delete that partition will I have problems booting though? I'd like to replace that partition with another OS.
     
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    YES,Quick boot function will not work
     
    bigspin, Oct 24, 2007
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    If I never plan to use that feature on my laptop, will regular windows and the recovery utility still be accessible? Sorry if I sound like I'm asking the same thing. I just don't use that utility and I want to get rid of it, and replace it with something else.
     
    seanpr, Oct 25, 2007
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    I deleted the partition in question (Arcade) and it appears that the recovery partition does not work anymore, so I deleted it too - but who cares if you can just burn recovery DVDs? Don't forget to burn a driver DVD as well since you might decide to do a fresh Vista install in the future (highly recommended if you know what you are doing and how to find the latest drivers).
     
    Santa_Claus, Oct 26, 2007
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    So if I delete the 10 G and the 3 Gb partitions, then I won't get that problem anymore? I read suggestions in another thread, that if you press the small man-icon or the "hold" button on Cinedash, then Acer Arcade Deluxe will start up. What happens then if the partition isn't there anymore? Do I have to configure the boot-menu or something like that? Do I need the 10 Gb recovery-partition, now when I have made the two recovery-DVD's?
     
    jnsvsankllad, Aug 27, 2008
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    On my system, once I rewrote the MBR (master boot record) with a fresh Vista install, pressing the Arcade button simply booted my system into Vista.
     
    TehSuigi, Aug 27, 2008
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    Hello,
    I have accidentally deleted all the partitions on the disk. Could you please tell me how can I restore the Quickboot Acer Arcade partition ? Hopefully I had already created the Factory Default DVDs. Is the Quickboot partition restored by these dvds or they restore only the operating system ?

    Thanks in advance
    Sotos183
     
    Sotos183, Mar 21, 2009
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