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    Acer Travelmate 4050 OS Installation

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Vinnie, Jun 28, 2007.

  1. Vinnie

    Vinnie Newbie

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    Hello.

    I have an Acer TravelMate 4050 notebook. It has the default Hard Disk drive installed (40GB). I was woundering if I could delete all the partitions that are on there including the PQSERVICE partition.

    What I would like to do is split the disk up by clearing it completely & Instaling Windows XP from the recovery discs & Ubuntu Linux 7.04. As I use Linux on my Desktops. But I have found out that the Recovery disks require information from PQSERVICE (Is this correct)

    Anyway bottom line:

    Can I remove PQSERVICE
    Is there an option to reinstall Windows XP from the recovery discs as a virgin installation. (eg like the OEM or Retail copy of XP Pro)

    Any Help is appreciated.

    Thanks

    Vince
     
    Vinnie, Jun 28, 2007
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  2. Hairy_Lee

    Hairy_Lee Notebook Consultant

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    it should be fine to delete the pqservice partition as the backup disks are independant of it.
     
    Hairy_Lee, Jul 1, 2007
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