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    Recovery Disks

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by GlennCoco, Jan 21, 2008.

  1. GlennCoco

    GlennCoco Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had a few questions...

    If I made some changes to the computer, and THEN made the "factory" recovery disks, does it make a recovery disk of what I just changed, or truly restore the factory settings.

    Also, right now the 80GB hard drive is partitioned 40/40, if I repartitioned the drive a different way and installed a different OS, then used the factory recovery disks, would that restore it back with the original partitions?
     
    GlennCoco, Jan 21, 2008
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  2. dondadah88

    dondadah88 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    no it will not repartition the hard drive i HAD a acer 3680 and call acer and tell them u did not recieve any recovery disc and they'll send it out to u free
     
    dondadah88, Jan 21, 2008
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    GlennCoco Notebook Enthusiast

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    So let's say I repartition my drive to something that is a little more sensible to me, like 20GB/60GB. Later if I went in with my recovery disks, would they just install Vista again on the 20 GB partition?
     
    GlennCoco, Jan 22, 2008
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