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    PQSERVICE Patition Question

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Dubro, Jun 7, 2008.

  1. Dubro

    Dubro Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just bought a new 8920 Notebook. I did a backup using the e recovery. I backed it up to 2 dvd"s. Then I did another backup using Acronis True Image Home. I backed it up to a pc on my home network.

    There are 4 partitions: C (ntfs), D (ntfs), PQService (FS) and one other (FS), (can't remember the name)

    Can I delete the PQSERVICE and the other partion? I can't remember the name of the other. I think it was "service" or something.

    Then I can make my "D" partition larger and shrink my "C" partition to 50 GB.

    I want to end up with "D" 300 GB and "C" 50 GB
     
    Dubro, Jun 7, 2008
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  2. andyasselin

    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    yes you can you will lose the abtily restore you laptop from the hard disk or disk to disk recovery


    make sure you burn set of recovery disk before you erase it useing erecover

    at bottom they be burn disk image
     
    andyasselin, Jun 7, 2008
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  3. TeeJay 44

    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    Please keep the PQ Service partition intact and don't delete it. It is what contains the System Recovery info and files for your Acer.

    If you mess with it the chances are good that you will mess up your new lappie. And be back here asking all sorts of questions about how to fix the problem (like lot's of folks before you). Leave alone.

    Cheers,
    Theo
     
    TeeJay 44, Jun 7, 2008
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    cristoh Newbie

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    By the way.. I am try to recover the OS from the pqservice partition but when I choose the option to access the partition it asks me for a password..I don't know... If I map to F drive I can do itand see what is in ther but how I cand rund the D2D program.... any idea it sil bd great. thanks
     
    cristoh, Sep 17, 2008
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  5. andyasselin

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    try passsword as 000000
    it default password
     
    andyasselin, Sep 18, 2008
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