Acer eRecover and partitions!

Hi all

I have just bought a jolly nice Acer Aspire 5920- but it has one
distressing shortcoming- no Vista install disks! There is, however,
the facility to make a 'Factory Default' disk, which I have already
done.

I will be installing Ubuntu on this machine, as I prefer it to
Windows, but a couple of questions before I start shuffing partitions
around:

Are the DVDs produced by the Recovery suite enough to restore Vista
on their own? I ask, as I intend to remove the hidden 'EISA
Configuration' partition which currently takes up about 10GB.

I won't be using Vista much, if at all, but as I have paid for it, I
may as well dual-boot, at least until I need the space that the extra
OS is taking up!

Also, there's another partition, it seems for Acer Arcade, which is
bootable from powered-off condition using a seperate key. I have
heard that installing Linux stops this working- anyone know why/how I
can circumvent this?

Thanks for your help!
Charlie

No. The recovery disc you made MUST have an untouched "hidden" partition in
order to restore the original configuration.

HH

"FokkerCharlie" wrote in message
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Hi all

I have just bought a jolly nice Acer Aspire 5920- but it has one
distressing shortcoming- no Vista install disks! There is, however,
the facility to make a 'Factory Default' disk, which I have already
done.

I will be installing Ubuntu on this machine, as I prefer it to
Windows, but a couple of questions before I start shuffing partitions
around:

Are the DVDs produced by the Recovery suite enough to restore Vista
on their own? I ask, as I intend to remove the hidden 'EISA
Configuration' partition which currently takes up about 10GB.

I won't be using Vista much, if at all, but as I have paid for it, I
may as well dual-boot, at least until I need the space that the extra
OS is taking up!

Also, there's another partition, it seems for Acer Arcade, which is
bootable from powered-off condition using a seperate key. I have
heard that installing Linux stops this working- anyone know why/how I
can circumvent this?

Thanks for your help!
Charlie

Thanks for the response, HH.

That's jolly interesting- and begs the question- what's the point of
the recovery disk, then? I think that the original config is
recoverable from the hidden partition alone...

Cheers
Charlie

On 13 May, 13:35, "HH" wrote:
No. The recovery disc you made MUST have an untouched "hidden" partition in
order to restore the original configuration.

HH

"FokkerCharlie" wrote in message

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Hi all

I have just bought a jolly nice Acer Aspire 5920- but it has one
distressing shortcoming- no Vista install disks! *There is, however,
the facility to make a 'Factory Default' disk, which I have already
done.

I will be installing Ubuntu on this machine, as I prefer it to
Windows, but a couple of questions before I start shuffing partitions
around:

Are the DVDs produced by the Recovery suite enough to restore Vista
on *their own? *I ask, as I intend to remove the hidden 'EISA
Configuration' partition which currently takes up about 10GB.

I won't be using Vista much, if at all, but as I have paid for it, I
may as well dual-boot, at least until I need the space that the extra
OS is taking up!

Also, there's another partition, it seems for Acer Arcade, which is
bootable from powered-off condition using a seperate key. *I have
heard that installing Linux stops this working- anyone know why/how I
can circumvent this?

Thanks for your help!
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