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    Acer Aspire5502WXMi questions

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Ryvius, Sep 27, 2006.

  1. Ryvius

    Ryvius Notebook Guru

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    I just received this laptop and I noticed that the Hard Drive is formatted as Fat32 with 2 seperate partitions, can someone tell me how to reformat it correctly to NTFS? Also, I got the Vista compatible logo on the laptop, if I install the Vista beta, will it affect the battery life?
     
    Ryvius, Sep 27, 2006
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  2. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    There have been several threads on this topic.Please do use the search feature before posting next time...
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx
    This method might create cluster sizes of 512k which might impact performance but it wont delete your stuff on the hard drive.

    Vista is also a little bit more demanding on the hardware than XP, so in certain cases it may reduce your battery life.
     
    miner, Sep 28, 2006
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