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    Doing the paritioning trick on the forums here with an Acer OEM Windows disk?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Zeptinune, Apr 23, 2011.

  1. Zeptinune

    Zeptinune Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a computer that didn't come with a Windows disc. It has a backup modle (like most laptops these days) that allows you to create a 'factory restore' disc. That pops your OS and all your drivers and factory installed bloatware back on it in case you ever need to.

    Now point is. I want to do the paritioning trick that is on the forums here. I cant find the thread as of yet but I found it once before. After a bit of a discussion other users told me that you could achieve some pretty blisteringly fast speeds using it.

    What I want to know is well, my Acer OEM disc creates it's own paritions:

    1 Unmounted invisible parition of unknown format.
    1 Unmounted invisible 100MB 'SYSTEM RESERVED' NTFS partion
    1 Mounted storage parition to put all my stuff on.

    I need to know will this screw up the way (obviously I guess it would) that the paritioning trick is done here on the forums and well how do I go around that?
     
    Zeptinune, Apr 23, 2011
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