The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    partioning using acer eRecovery

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by solidrepellent, Apr 7, 2011.

  1. solidrepellent

    solidrepellent Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Dear all,

    I bought acer aspire 5742G yesterday. As usual it came with loads of bloatware. I want to make a clean windows7 install and create partitions for Linux. But when I am trying to use acer eRecovery to restore to factory defaults, it does not ask me any question regarding partioning of the harddisk. It straight away trys and installs in my 500 GB harddisk. Can you please let me know how to partition my disk and install clean windows.

    Thanks and Regards,
    Naveen.

    P.S: I have made recovery disks.
     
    solidrepellent, Apr 7, 2011
    #1
  2. Mooly

    Mooly Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    43
    Messages:
    353
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Erecovery rebuilds the HDD to "original" as far as I understand by formatting and rebuilding the HDD. Creating new partitions from there isn't possible.

    Other will have more experience on this Im sure but W7 and Vista do have disk management tools provided,
    Resize a Partition for Free in Windows 7 or Vista - How-To Geek

    Create and format a hard disk partition

    Not sure if that helps or not.

    I would be interested to see a recommended way to clean install W7 from the original preinstalled OS if that is possible. I'm lucky in having a Vista upgrade disc and clean installed from that... and you can't beat it :)
     
    Mooly, Apr 8, 2011
    #2
  3. Orlbuckeye

    Orlbuckeye Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    39
    Messages:
    572
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    31
    There are free partitian apps available. What you want to do is alot easier if the system has to physical drives. I have an Acer 9810 that came with 2 160 GB HD and it has each divided in 2 partitians. Acer also creates a hidden partitian where you it has the files needed to create restore disks. Erecovery restores to the factory defaults. It just installs windows and the applications and drivers are optional and on the another DVD. All your major brands supply system restore disks that are special OEM's for their brand. The retail versions sold at best buy are not brand specific and install just Microsoft parts.
     
    Orlbuckeye, Apr 8, 2011
    #3
  4. aylafan

    aylafan TimelineX Elite

    Reputations:
    438
    Messages:
    1,247
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Recovery discs or a recovery partition from a specific brand will restore your laptop back to the factory default with the drivers and all the bloatware.

    You have a to use a Windows 7 disc to do a clean install of Windows 7. There is no workaround for this.
     
    aylafan, Apr 8, 2011
    #4
  5. solidrepellent

    solidrepellent Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    aylyfan @ Thanks for the reply. So, where will be I be getting Windows 7 disc. Will the acer support provide me with one. Since I have the original key it should work. Any suggestions from you in this regard?

    Thanks a lot for the reply Orlbuckeye and Mooly.
     
    solidrepellent, Apr 8, 2011
    #5
  6. mjmacnab

    mjmacnab Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    94
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    mjmacnab, Apr 11, 2011
    #6