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    Clean install over vista 32bit with Windows 7

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jinjishu, Jun 24, 2010.

  1. jinjishu

    jinjishu Newbie

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    So I am in the menu to do a clean install, I formated the partition with Vista on it. Do I also format the partition with the pqservice on it? The main partition was the one with vista. I also have another partition that has XP on it and one that says DATA. Will those two partitions be affected if I format the PQ service one?
     
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  2. TehSuigi

    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

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    PQSERVICE is your recovery partition. Keep it.
    The XP partition is your Acer Arcade Instant-On partition.
    Data is your D: partition, containing most of your data.
    The latter two shouldn't be affected if you delete PQSERVICE, which you shouldn't.
     
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    So when I install windows 7, will the windows 7 recovery overwrite the pqservice that's a recovery for vista and make it a recovery for windows 7?
     
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    No - the PQSERVICE partition was set up by Acer, and contains a Vista disk image. That won't change if you install Windows 7.
     
    TehSuigi, Jun 25, 2010
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    BruBoo Notebook Evangelist

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    Windows 7 will likely disable the recovery function.

    A better strategy for a whole load of reasons (but especially if you have outstanding time on the warranty) to get a new HDD and do a clean install of W7.

    Should you be struck by an uncontrollable desire to return to Vista at some point (or have to for warranty support) then swap back to the original physical disk and there you go . . even if the laptop is not working at that point
     
    BruBoo, Jun 26, 2010
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