Need help formatting acer 2920!!!!!!

Hi, sorry for my bad english... ok let start...

i just bought a new laptop acer aspire 2920 and using a windows XP.. I received a CD write "acer aspire 2920 RECOVERY" after i bought the laptop.. i dont know what does the cd for.. and now on, i wan to format the laptop but i scare if i lost some important data or LICENSE install on my laptop... and the CD i received was scared me to format it... could u pls reply me as soon as possible? what does the cd for?

 

bump~~~ pls help me

 

I can't really help. My 2920 came with Vista and I don't think Acer in most of the world supports XP (or Windows 7) on this machine.

I have found some XP drivers for it, but can't remember where. I think it was a Japanese site, and I haven't been brave enough to try to move to XP.

The machine should have come with a hidden partition and a recovery CD. These two together should be able to restore Vista. If you format the drive you will probably lose the hidden partition, and thus lose the ability to restore Vista.

I suspect some of the nice features, such as the front volume control, depend on having all the right Acer specific drivers, so I've reluctantly stuck to Vista.

 

the CD is useless to XP? so, i can format my laptop now and forget about the CD?

 

I'm afraid I don't understand the question.

The 2920 comes with Vista, and on the Acer sites, the only drivers are for Vista.

Is your machine running Vista at the moment? If so, I'd leave it with Vista. If you format the drive you may find that you have blown away the small, hidden recovery partition and can never re-install Vista.

My machine works well with Vista, even for audio work, so I will leave it on Vista. It isn't a current machine and I don't expect Acer to produce drivers for it for Windows 7 or XP.

 

i mean the CD acer aspire recovery for XP or vista? if vista.. then i'll ignore that CD and continue format/reinstall my XP

 

I've had a look round various Acer sites and it looks as though links from
http://support.acer.com/#results
lead to XP, Vista and Vista64 drivers, so I'd guess that the XP recovery disk should be OK and you ought to be able to install from a format and standard XP installation disk.

What I've been suggesting is that if you come to partition the disk before formatting, and find a small (on mine about 9GB) recovery partition, try to leave that there.

It is still odd that the Acer FTP-based driver sites, which I've always understood to be the main source for drivers, still don't seem to have XP drivers.