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    Acer Aspire 6920G Dual Booting

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by =-=Solo=-=, Jan 11, 2009.

  1. =-=Solo=-=

    =-=Solo=-= Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello. I have joined this forum because it seems to be the best place to ask.
    I have an Acer Aspire 6920G laptop. I'm trying to dual boot windows vista,
    with windows 7 beta 1. I made a new partition out of the data D: drive.
    When I try to format it windows says it will be made into a dynamic drive,
    I cannot do this for dual booting. After looking around I found out that
    windows cannot have more then 4 (Or 3?) boot drives.
    The computer came with 4 partition's: One for vista, one for data (Data D: ) , one for acer instant on, and one for repair. So that's why the windows 7 installer says that I cannot install it. By dual booting, I found out the acer instant on will stop working. I don't need the instant on anyway, so can I delete the instant on so I can dual boot, and if so how?
    Thank you.
     
    =-=Solo=-=, Jan 11, 2009
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  2. gazzacbr

    gazzacbr Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi solo,
    have the same lappy. i made the recovery discs when i first got it, tried dual booting and failed, then completely wiped the disc (normal for every laptop and desktop ive ever bought). i use acronis os manager to 3 way boot vista 64 (main), xp32 for games and trying out vista server 64, and no probs. i also use acronis trueimage 11 (not 12) for recovery backups. i have 3 other partitions for personal, data and the os loader. (i dont work for acronis but recommend them)
     
    gazzacbr, Jan 13, 2009
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