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Acer eRecover and partitions!
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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 |
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No. The recovery disc you made MUST have an untouched "hidden" partition in
order to restore the original configuration. HH "FokkerCharlie" wrote in message ... 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 |
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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 ... 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- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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"DC" wrote in message ... FokkerCharlie wrote: 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 ... 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- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - My suggestion to you would be to contact Acer and purchase a recovery set. That way, no matter what you do with the partitions, you can always recover your unit back to factory. Another solution would be to purchase another hard drive to load Ubuntu onto, and just save the original hard drive with it's original OS. Just remember, if you have to send it in under warranty, to place the original hard drive back in the unit. I cannot see the logic of a recovery disc which requires access to a recovery partition on the HDD. It means that if there is a physical failure of the hard drive, the OS is lost as well, and that is not in the spirit of the OEM Vista license. I raised this issue with Acer tech. support and they invited me to pay £50 for a set of recovery discs - to restore an OS for which I already had a valid OEM license! Grossly unfair and you have to ask - why do they do it that way? The separate HDD solution you have suggested is the best solution to the OP's enquiry. Remove ".invalid" and replace with ".com" to reply |
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The point is the recovery disc is bootable. So if the PC becomes unbootable,
the recovery CD can be inserted and the PC will boot from it. It also contains the startup files for the restore process. HH "Mr. Slow" wrote in message ... "DC" wrote in message ... FokkerCharlie wrote: 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 ... 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- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - My suggestion to you would be to contact Acer and purchase a recovery set. That way, no matter what you do with the partitions, you can always recover your unit back to factory. Another solution would be to purchase another hard drive to load Ubuntu onto, and just save the original hard drive with it's original OS. Just remember, if you have to send it in under warranty, to place the original hard drive back in the unit. I cannot see the logic of a recovery disc which requires access to a recovery partition on the HDD. It means that if there is a physical failure of the hard drive, the OS is lost as well, and that is not in the spirit of the OEM Vista license. I raised this issue with Acer tech. support and they invited me to pay £50 for a set of recovery discs - to restore an OS for which I already had a valid OEM license! Grossly unfair and you have to ask - why do they do it that way? The separate HDD solution you have suggested is the best solution to the OP's enquiry. Remove ".invalid" and replace with ".com" to reply |
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