Acer Recovery and Partitions

I was wondering how the acer recovery works cos i've never used anything like it. If i use the software to make the two discs for recovery and then format the c drive, then split it into two partitions, will i be able to use the recovery discs to install everything back on the new c drive?
Has anyone tried this?
I wanted to do this so that if anything goes wrong with the system files e.g viruses, i can just simply format the c drive and not worry about losing my files which would be on the other drive (partition).
The other thing is that there is apparently a hidden d drive (for recovery). So once i partition, what will happen to the letter assignment of the drive?
sorry for being a noob.

 

The only way (after two days of f..ting around) I got the recovery disks to work was to delete all the partitions, then recovery disks worked. :-{

 

Some quick basics.

1. Always backup your data.

2. Unfortunately recovery disks are made to restore to factory fresh, now depending on the model depends on exactly what it will do, best bet for doing what you want is buy Acronis Trueimage or Norton Ghost and use one of those two to make an image, that way you KNOW what the image is of (partition vs drive vs...).

3. I had the same thing as Mikekram, needed to wipe entire drive for recovery disk to work.

4. Hidden partition doesn't have a letter, it's a hidden drive.

 

The good thing about Acer recovery disks is that it only touches the first partition (C: drive). So you can have other partitions and still do recovery without affecting it. Recovery will always write over your C: drive tho, there is no getting around that.

This is why it's good to make a Storage partition.

 

thanks for the info, i'm gna try and make a storage partition and then try acer recovery, its best in the long run (havn't got my acer laptop yet...coming today!!) so i'll try it out. If it doesn't work atleast i wont loose anything important!