New HDD in Acer 6920g

Hello,

I have bought a 500gb SATA HDD to replace the stock 250gb one.

I would install the drivers from the website but for some reason they don't seem to detect the webcam etc. I also can not find the link for the bluray player.

Is there a version of the original restore image on the interwebs anywhere or does anyone have any ideas, I have no data that I need on either so willing to try anything

 

Hi, you can only get restore discs from Acer, a image disc doesn't exist unless you make your own. You can image across from your old drive to the new one if you've a PC with Sata2 connectors...
Chris

 

But will the restore disks work for an un-formatted HDD?

I've got a USB SATA connector, any free imaging programs that you know will work with Acer's partitions etc?

 

try acronis

you can copy everything of your old HDD to the new one

 

Thanks, acronis worked perfectly but I can't seem to get the extra 250gb odd useable. It won't let me extend the D "data" partition and I can't make the RAW stuff into a partition as it already has 4 on there.

 

Hi, what OS are you using and what program are you trying to extend the partition with?
Chris

 

Vista Home Pre on the lappy and Vista Ultimate on my desktop which I've used a USB-SATA cable for doing things with the laptop HDD.

Just using the windows built in disk management software.

 

Read another users excellent hd upgrade process here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=305842

 

Hi, you haven't got more than 4 primary partions on the computer you are trying to resize the partition on have you? If not then I'd boot to a Vista install, or XP, disk and partition the empty space from within there..
Chris

 

Thanks for that mate

As in boot from disc and pretend to do a new install?

 

Hi, yes that's it, then stop it when you've created the partition. Make doubly sure it's the right partition though...
Chris

 

It's working now, but I'm getting a weird issue, I made the D drive about 320GB but as soon as I restart the machine the drive disappears from windows explorer.

In disk management, it then doesn't allow me to do anything with it, it only shows "help" when I right click on it. Any ideas?

Will take a screenshot when I get home.

 

Hi, sounds like there is an issue with the way they are partitioned, a screenshot of 'disc management' within vista would help..
Chris

 

Will take that for you when I get home from work

 

There you go mate

 

Hi, so it's the 322gb one you're trying to work with, but what looks wrong is the EISA configuration which is hiding it. EISA is usually only used for hidden partitions that have the recovery files on it. But how you get it to change I'm not sure. Maybe it is the way the image procedure has been done that's caused this to happen and this might come down to having too many primary partitions when the drives were imaged. When I did my 5920's I used a boot version of Norton Ghost, did you do yours in windows?
Chris

 

I did mine using acronis using a USB SATA cable from my desktop.

I've tried deleting the partition on the desktop, then loading it into the lappy and using windows to make the data partition.

 

Hi, this microsoft explanation seems to fit whats going on but you've already tried the cure http://support.microsoft.com/kb/242168 however here http://www.kenst.com/2008/07/deleting-your-q1-eisa-partition.html might be of more help. Form reading this it would seem that a XP or win2k disc is required...
Chris

 

Thanks for your help, I just gave up with trying to do it that way.

Just installed vista fresh from a disc and manually installing all the drivers etc.

 

Hi, that's a shame we couldn't get to a solution but I guess you've still got the original partitions on the old disk. I actually have had a similar situation with Acronis when trying to clone a drive to another, that's why I ended up a using Norton Ghost boot disk...
Chris