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    Acer ERecovery : Partitioning

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by meskensj, Nov 9, 2006.

  1. meskensj

    meskensj Newbie

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    Hi All,

    I have an acer 9410 laptop and have following question about the eRecovery system :

    The first thing I did when I had the laptop was the installation of ubuntu linux. When I was doing that, I had in mind that one day windows may be necessary. So I didn't touch the erecovery partition and created an (empty) windows partition for the future.

    /dev/sda1 * 1 638 5124703+ 12 Compaq diagnostics
    /dev/sda2 639 3820 25559415 83 Linux
    /dev/sda3 3821 7095 26306437+ 83 Linux
    /dev/sda4 7096 14593 60227685 5 Extended
    /dev/sda5 7096 14113 56372053+ 83 Linux
    /dev/sda6 14114 14593 3855568+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

    In the listing above, the second partition (/dev/sda2) is my empty windows partition.

    Now I want to install windows with eRecovery. Does someone know if the program just installs averything in /dev/sda2 or will it repartition my hard drive? Any feedback is welcome.
     
    meskensj, Nov 9, 2006
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  2. mikekram

    mikekram Newbie

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    it will repartition your HD. (It only seems to work if you delete all the partitions before you boot the recovery disk.)
     
    mikekram, Aug 27, 2007
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