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Acer Aspire Hard Drive Partitions
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Having just bought an Acer Aspire 1642 (with which I'm happy) laptop, I do however have one query for anyone with an Acer laptop.
The hard drive is only 40GB and that's partitioned into a C drive and a D one. By default everything goes onto drive C, including programs and data, and already I note that this drive only has about 7GB left to play with. Drive D conversely has about 17GB, but it's not clear to me how I access and utilise that drive.
E-mail customer support just doesn't seem to be designed to address this issue, and telephone support results in dying of old age before you reach the head of the queue.
I'd like to know essentially how I utilise Drive D, so as to ensure plenty of storage capacity.
The way it's been done here is wierd to me. With my old HP one, they would partition the drive, but Drive D would simply have all the factory files and Windows files on it, taking up a few GB, with Drive C being fully open for use to do with as you please, so to speak.
Whilst this is not a life or death issue, clarification would be appreciated if any Acer users can enlighten me.:)
The hard drive is only 40GB and that's partitioned into a C drive and a D one. By default everything goes onto drive C, including programs and data, and already I note that this drive only has about 7GB left to play with. Drive D conversely has about 17GB, but it's not clear to me how I access and utilise that drive.
E-mail customer support just doesn't seem to be designed to address this issue, and telephone support results in dying of old age before you reach the head of the queue.
I'd like to know essentially how I utilise Drive D, so as to ensure plenty of storage capacity.
The way it's been done here is wierd to me. With my old HP one, they would partition the drive, but Drive D would simply have all the factory files and Windows files on it, taking up a few GB, with Drive C being fully open for use to do with as you please, so to speak.
Whilst this is not a life or death issue, clarification would be appreciated if any Acer users can enlighten me.:)
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Your assistance is hugely appreciated I hasten to add.
Open Windows Explorer, click on Drive then go to the right pane and right click, hover over "new" and left click "folder". A new folder appears - while it is blue type in the name or later right click it, click "rename" and give it a name. Do this for all your data folders. In MS programs such as Word or Excel then when you save data do a "save as", browse through the drives and folders in the window which appears until you get the one you want. You should find that next time it will go to that. Some programs have an "options" in which you can select where data is to be saved, temporary files run, etc. There isn't just one method but if you fiddle about with each program you will find that there is alway a way of making it put data on .When you have everything as you want it then transfer your data from C: to . Either transfer complete folders - in Win Explorer click on C:, right click on the folder, left click "cut" then left click on , right click in the right hand pane, left click "paste". Voila! folder transfered. Use the same procedure to transfer contents of folders.
It always annoys me when I get a new PC with only one partition. First thing I do is delete everything, partition into C: and and then reinstall the OS on C:. You're fortunate that Acer seem to know what they're doing.
With hindsight I would have partitioned into 3, 1 for OS, 1 for all other programs and 1 for data.
I should have arriving today a Caddy and 2.5"HDD. I shall clone this from the Acer (using Casper XP), whilst at the same time altering the partition ratio. I shall then have the partitions as I want them and a back up. (i.e. swap the drives and keep the original as back up)
So if you're putting data on D and using Acer's "eRecovery" backup software, it's probably not getting backed up. I think that eRecovery relies on drive C being FAT32, too.
If you're using something else, like Windows' NTBackup program, or just copying files you want to keep somewhere safe, you should be OK.
Ian.
I too have an acer 1642 and am annoyed about the partitions, if i format the hard drive and then use the acer recovery disk to reinstall windows would i still have partitons or would it be one big drive like i want.
Thanks