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    Acer V7 - Recovery... how?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by lastdon, Oct 23, 2014.

  1. lastdon

    lastdon Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello,

    Firstly... I am trying to do a search to find the answer, but I am getting a blank page with nothing results.. Using IE.

    Secondly


    I installed a SSD in the V7 laptop... I already made a recovery USB stick..

    When I install the recovery using the USB stick, it basically adds all the partitions again..

    Is there a way to get only WINDOWS to install not the recovery partitions etc?


    ALSO : my laptop had a 500gb HDD with a 16gb cache.. now that i put the samsung evo drive in 2.5... it also partitions a 14.91GB section which i can't delete from windows.

    How can you disable the cache portion? I am assuming that is that it is thinking

    thank you
     
    lastdon, Oct 23, 2014
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  2. downloads

    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    Recovery does what the name implies - recovers the notebook to the original state including all the partitions, drivers, bloatware etc.
    There is no way to just install Windows using eRecovery- you'd need to go with a clean install using your own media.
     
    downloads, Nov 4, 2014
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