Getting rid of PQSERVICE

I have a new TM6292 and have burned my recovery DVDs.

I have also uninstalled all of the Acer E Tech software including erecovery.

Can I now delete the PQSERVICE & D:data Partitions then and resize my C: to take up the extra space?

Any help would be appreciated

 

EVERYONE HERE will tell you to leave it alone, even though most of the regulars (myself included) have removed the PQSERVICE partition.

here is a tip that is ACTUALLY useful and makes sense.

if you are about to trash your partitions and do a fresh install... why not verify that the recovery dvds work by setting the PC to boot from cd first... and inserting recovery disk1.

if it loads up, runs and starts the recovery as you would expect.... then you should be good to go.... so you can either let it finish, or just terminate the program,,, and boot with the OS INSTALLER of your choice,, make partition modifications as YOU desire... and then load your desired OS

 

How about the D:data partition, is it ok to get rid of it?

Thanks,
John

 

it's OK to get rid of it too,,, but it might be required to RE-CREATE it prior to doing a RESTORE from CDs... i'm not sure.

i have heard of the D2D recovery failing because the D: partition is not there.

so my advice would be to go into DISK MANAGMENT and write down all the partition information before trashing it... just incase you do have to re-create the C: & D: partitions before the recovery will work properly...

but i do know that i have seen posts where simply RE-CREATING a D:data partition solved a problem a few users were having when the RESTORE was failing to work...

i'd just collect the important info such as PARTITION TYPE, SIZE, NAME (exactly as from the factory), and FILE STRUCTURE (even though others here say that the file structure can be either NTFS or FAT32).

and you can always recreate partitions using GParted, it can be downloaded and burned to a self-booting CD so you can RE-CREATE partitions easily without having a working OS such as windows installed.
i'd just make sure to keep the info about how things are now.... just incase you need it!

 

Hi John - Welcome to the Acer Forum.

It's amazing. After a quite spell the same old questions are asked again....

1. Best to leave the PQ Service partition alone. It is your operating system backup if things go pear shaped. Alt+F10 at bootup fixes all. It will bring your Lappie back to factory release status..( When all worked properly)

And all will be well. Delete and reformat and just change everything at random on HDD without thinking results in :cry: :cry:

2. It is advised to keep the D Partition the way it is. Put your valuable files, photo's and stuff there. Alt+F10 leaves your D drive intact.

No problems. Hopefully, you are cautioned

Cheers,
Theo

 

Before I deleted the PQ partition I backed it up to a external USB drive and
then copied it to another external drive. Just in case them there
DVD's became unreadable. Also copied the DVD's to the drives.
Then I used Driveimagexml and made a backup of my basic
Vista install. Do a backup about once a month. Have XP and Vista
installed, hope to never need the Vista PQ stuff, but if I do I'm
well prepared.

James