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Acer Travelmate laptop HD question
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Original Message
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Name: XpUser
Date: September 25, 2007 at 10:36:29 Pacific
Subject: Acer Travelmate laptop HD questionOS: XP & VistaCPU/Ram: Different PC Different CP |
Comment: At the moment I am working on Acer Travelmate 4202WLMI. It has XP Home Edition. My question is why are there two similar partitions. The first volume is Acer (drive C - capacity 44.37GB) and the second Acerdata (drive D - capacity 44.86GB). My thought is that Drive D could be the recovery partition. If that is so then the 44.59GB free space is being wasted. Do I figure it right? i_Xp/VistaUser
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Response Number 1
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Name: XpUser
Date: September 25, 2007 at 11:33:36 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I guess it's just that Acer like to use a very different concept not shared or endorsed by all other major OEM system builders such as HP, Dell, etc. Sigh. i_Xp/VistaUser
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Response Number 2
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Name: OtheHill
Date: September 25, 2007 at 12:13:59 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)XPUser If the size is the same, more or less then the files shouldn't be compressed and you should be able to view them. Are you sure the owner didn't just make another partition to backup the data and named it ACER data? That sure seems like WAY to much data to have come from the vendor.
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Response Number 3
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Name: aegis
Date: September 25, 2007 at 12:14:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Are you saying that you are unable to use the D: drive?
I wonder if there is another 'hidden' partition that ACER uses for the recovery image.
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Response Number 4
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Name: XpUser
Date: September 25, 2007 at 13:00:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I believe the client have created her own recovery disc with my help (if I remember it right). I ran Disk Manager and it showed a hidden partition labelled PQService - with no letter assigned. I am able to see & browse what's on drive d. There is one file named Seimens in Powerpoint and a 279kb folder with a name I don't recognize. The client is PC illiterant and couldn't have created this partition herself. i_Xp/VistaUser
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Response Number 5
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Name: cliffpage
Date: September 25, 2007 at 13:14:33 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)i am in uk, about a year ago i bought a Hp laptop from www.ebuyer.com , before i chose my HP I read lots of buyer reviews on the laptops they have for sale (buyers add their reviews on the items for sale) and i recall a lot of people in the ACER reviews commenting on the hard drive being split into two equal partitions. (it was not a recovery partition)
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Response Number 6
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Name: XpUser
Date: September 25, 2007 at 13:17:19 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks for the info - cliffpage. I wonder what's the reason for Acer to have to split the HD if not to enable users to save & store their own stuff on the Acerdata partition. If that was the case the manual should have instructed users to do it this way. Nothing was mentioned - not even once - about the availability of drive D in the manuals. i_Xp/VistaUser
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Response Number 8
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Name: XpUser
Date: September 25, 2007 at 13:25:11 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Yes it is. It's EISA configuration which does not need or use drive letter. The physical size is 3.9GB using FAT32. i_Xp/VistaUser
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