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    Repartitioning the Acer 8943g

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by julio99, May 18, 2011.

  1. julio99

    julio99 Notebook Guru

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    I have the Acer 8943g which has 4 partitions. All 4 are Primary with my Cdrive having 500+ gb of space. I also have a 3.50 gb Primary partition tat is related to the Acer Arcade feature. What I want to do is create a storage drive, maybe 100gb by shrinking the Cdrive. Because there are already 4 primary partitions, I think I'm going to have to bump one of the oriiginal 4 which is where the Arcade partition comes in. I can delete that one if it's possible and shrink the C drive for the 100gb needed for the logical storage drive. I hope that's clear. Somehow I want to create a 100gb storage drive out of this mess, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. Click on attchment below to view Disk Management Window of my partitions.

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  2. Orlbuckeye

    Orlbuckeye Notebook Evangelist

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    Well you have to watch it because Acer creates a partition for system restore files which may be the one your saying is for the Acer Arcade. If I were you I wouldn't bother creating a new drive and would use folders on the current partition. On my 9810 from Acer it actually created 4 partistians on 2 drives and labled one as data. So I imagine you have 2 physical drives. My 8950 came with 1 drive with 2 partitions.
     
  3. julio99

    julio99 Notebook Guru

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    For some reason I just found your post. I already finished doing this a couple hours ago. If you would have clicked on the pic in the lower left corner of my post you would've seen the layout of my hard drive. I had 4 primary partitions and in Windows that is all you are allowed. I deleted the Arcade partition which is useless. All it does is give you an Instant On button for the Arcade Deluxe feature that allows you to start the Arcade without turning on your computer. I had a 577 GB C drive and no storage partition that I can store stuff that I don't want to lose. I know that's what backups are for, but I still wanted a storage partition and now I have one.

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