Acer 6390G

Hi all,

Have had my 6390G for about a year now and it's Vista installation is finally starting to fall apart with numerous lock ups and slow down issues, so I think it's finally time to dive in and install my Windows 7 Home.

The Hard drive is a 250Gb with 4 partitions: 10gb /111gb (c /107gb (d /3gb

Firstly, will consolidating all partitions royally bone the PC? I've heard of some laptops using hdd partitions to store critical data, so I'm wondering if this is one of them?

I plan to get a small replacement HDD for the purposes of messing about with different OS, (Linux + Win7 the ultimate goal I suppose).

Thanks for any advice

 

Are you sure you don't mean 6930G? Googled 6390G and didn't really find anything.

Anyway, if it is the 6930G, you can slap a second hard drive into the spare HDD bay - perhaps you can get a new hard drive, take out the old one, and then install win 7 onto the new one and keep the old one in the second hard drive bay? That way you can keep the stuff in the old one too. Not too sure what will happen to the Vista partition. AND you need to buy a new bay door and HDD caddy as the laptop doesn't come with a proper door that fits nor does it come with a caddy for the second hard drive.

Also, Acer has partitioned the hard drive you have now so that it has a hidden recovery partition (probably the 10gig one) and the Acer Arcade partition (the 3gig one). If Vista is really getting locked down and slow, perhaps a restore is in order?

 

Yes 6930G it is. Oh that's cool it has a second bay, I'll check that out. I'm looking to go 64bit I think, so I'll probably wipe the whole thing. Thanks

 

There are two partitions that you can't wipe since it holds reinstallation stuff for Vista from Acer. I believe they both take up like 20 GB but the other two can be deleted or wiped with no problem as long as you have a disc to install with.