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    Resizing partitions

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Renoir, Jan 30, 2008.

  1. Renoir

    Renoir Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have the 5920G and plan to reinstall vista when service pack one comes out but also want to shrink the C: partition. My question is once I've shrunk the C: partition will I still be able to use acer's factory restore function or will it not work due to not recognizing the new partition size?

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    Renoir
     
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    ikillcomputers Newbie

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    I've resized mine and the recovery still worked fine :)
     
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    Renoir Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the reply. What did you resize it from/to? I'd like to get my C drive down to 25GB from 69GB
     
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    ikillcomputers Newbie

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    I've got mine on 30G I think, I made D: bigger and store everything there. Only C: gets wiped with recovery, but it will only reload the original O/S.

    Not sure if your familiar with ghost program. I actually use it and just backup C: partition to a image file on D: then if I want to reload I use a bootable ghost cd and just restore the image file.
     
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    I have done exactly that in the past with my desktop and previous laptop using acronis true image. I plan to use true image again on this laptop when I repartition but just wanted to check whether if that process were for whatever reason to go wrong I could still use the factory restore. Just being overly cautious I guess.
     
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