just ordered ASUA G50V-A2

on its way from newegg, and i've i have a couple of ? on how i should go about things after i rip it out of the box. can i pull out the jumper on the drives before i turn it on for the first time? and will recovering the vista in just one drive i mean only having 1 potion have any benefit other then a little space?
(like on page one of Vicious's review, btw thank you
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=283137u. )

and if theres any other tips/tricks that one should do out of the box those would also be appreciated.
thanks bob

 

Wrong section.

 

Yeah you can take the jumpers off if you think you need too. I was still waiting for more A2 owners to confirm they had a problem with the stock jumpers and that moving/removing them fixed the issue.

Taking off the panel is easy, just unscrew all the screws and pry it off gently the tabs on the front most part go under a lip so the lid gets tilted up like 30 degrees and slides out from there, and be very carefull when putting the lid back on that all those anchors are in place or its a pain to put the lid back on.

I make it sound hard maybe but its easy.

Also as for partitions I think the stock setup is 4 partitions actually, I would not go thru a whole OS recovery for the sake of partitions. Find a partition management software and just edit them.

Partition Magic works, and Vista built in drive management tools can also do a lot.

A thread that may help you as much as the review is this one: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=291251

Good luck and enjoy the new notebook!

 

whats the difference between the a2 and a1

 

A2 has bluray, 200 x 2 7200 =400gb HDD
A1 no bluray 250 x 2 5400 = 500gb HDD
everything else the same

 

a2 has blue ray
a1 has super multi dvdrw