PQService Partition and Vista

Hi all,

First of all I should point out I have an Acer Desktop, not a laptop, but this seems to be the best place to come for Acer related questions, so bear with me.

I recently installed Vista to my desktop, and surprisingly I'm quite happy with it. I would like to reclaim the 4GB or so that the PQService partition at the beginnning of my drive is currently using, and wanted to check that I can delete this partition safely. If I was still using XP I would leave it, but as I'm now on Vista, can I safely delete PQService without any trouble?

Many thanks in advance.

 

Yes you can safely delete it using a Partition manager.

I only advise this if you have already made a recovery disk from your XP that came already installed. You don't want to loose your XP, Keys, Etc:
Or you can Save the Partition Image on a disk using certain apps.

The PQSerive restores your PC back to it's Factory/Begining state. Incase you didn't know.

 

Thanks for the quick reply.

Since upgrading to Vista invalidates your XP key, isn't any of the XP related stuff I still have, including the PQService partition just wasted/invalidated junk?

Also, on an unrelated issue, (perhaps this isn't the place to be asking anyway) since I have installed Vista I don't seem to be able to boot from CD/DVD anymore. When I try to 'Boot from CD' appears during boot but it just hangs there until I remove the disc from the drive. Any ideas as to why this might be the case? The only thing I can think of is that I need to upgrade my drivers for Vista supplied by Acer.

PS I have set CD drive as first boot option in the BIOS and when in Vista the drive works fine.

 

Didn't realize it was an upgrade, thats a good question tho. I think most recovery partitions have or use more than one Windows key, so it might still work. But it's really your choice to delete or not.


The CD issue just might be the driver, but it most likely wouldn't have nothing to do with any drivers since your not booted into Vista yet.
You might need a BIOS upgrade as well, but I would not recommend that until you get much more info on that.

Check other posts or make new post for the CD problem.

 

Ok. So I went ahead and deleted the PQService partition, thereby freeing up 3.9 GB of HDD space. Only thing is that now I have one C: partition, one D: partition and one new volume that I have named E: of 3.9 GB that is pretty useless sitting there as it is. How would I go about incorporating that 3.9 GB into either my C or D partition?

 

use a program to merge the e partition into d or c with partition magic or paragon disk manager loads of software out there but this is done at your own risk