Help with acer 6920G bios

Hi, I'm trying to set up my new notebook(6920G). I erased all the partitions(even wiped them), and the 2 hidden partitions from the disk.

Now I'm trying to set up my hard disk as I like, but something is going wrong
I'm creating 3 primary partition and 1 extended, but when I'm rebooting the laptop, something(probably the bios) changes the state of the partitions, to the state it was before I erased the hard disk. It's making the first partition hidden(it contained the recovery image/stuff for the vista), it's making the second partition bootable(which originally contained the installation drive for vista) and it's making the fourth partition hidden(which originally contained the recovery image/stuff for winxp)

I'm going crazy , I don't want what I can do. I'm almost sure that the bios is responsible for these. I even disabled d2drecovery, but it didn't help.

Any ideas???
By the way, I don't think I will buy an acer laptop again, pretty lame support, they even don't let you handle the laptop whatever you like...
Excuse me for my bad english

 

Try to disable D2D RECOVERY in BIOS first. Then create the partitions in the way you want..

 

Thank you for you answer, but I tried this already, but doesn't work.

 

Hmm..I suppose that the MBR is still intact..that's the only reason for this 'partitioning' that I can think of..The way that the laptop is changing partition states is exactly what the Recovery Process do..
You can try this..Delete all partitions and create just C:\ with all the space in it. Install the OS you want and THEN partition the hdd..When 'recovery' can't find the partitions needed for the process it shouldn't mess with your hdd anymore..

 

I'll try to install an os in one single, to see what happens. But is it possible that something in the mbr is doing that change?

 

I guess..but still it's just a speculation..Or in MBR or in BIOS..but I think that with the 'single partition' method you can trick the recovery crap..

 

In bios try change IDE to AHCI or AHCI to IDE then try again cause IDE is for xp and ahci for vista

 

or download GPARTED
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

it will wipe out anything

 

Thank you all for your answers. The problem came from mbr as atthegates suggested.

I installed grub and it's allright now
But now I'm searching for xp drivers(there are some in the acer website, but not all)

@mackys, I installed xp with ahci mode enabled. But I slipstreamed the needed driver for the controller in the xp install disc using nlite

 

use the search box in my signature to serach for

6920 XP DRIVERS

i know there are 2 threads about this topic from earlier this week

 

I'm glad to hear that...
For xp drivers check the two 6920 threads as BigO suggested..