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    acer recovery and windows re-installation

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by PUTALE, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. PUTALE

    PUTALE Notebook Enthusiast

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    I know there are a lot of threads about the whole acer recovery disk and e-recovery.

    I have a slightly odd issue which I hope you guys can give me some help.

    I checked my acer hd and looks like there are 3 partitions:
    -eisa 3gig
    -c:\acer 27gig
    -d:\acerdata 27gig

    now, my question is that I want to install an os with different language. Is there anyway I can preserve the acer backup feature at all? I have use the e-recovery to create a disk (~1.8gig). So I am curious can I simply format my C drive and then install the new os onto that drive and still keep my recovery option (alt+f10?).

    I am worried that my mbr will get overwritten if I did a clean installation of os though.

    Also, I think acer's recovery only works with fat32 but I think windows xp works better with ntfs, would there be any issue if I format the system to ntfs?

    also, would there be any problem if I merge the c and d into 1 hd instead of having 2 if I can install another os?

    any help wuold be greately appreciated guys?
     
    PUTALE, Dec 30, 2008
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