Aspire 5738 -

First post here so be gentle please

Hope this is a simple question with a straightforward answer (here's hoping). I will be upgrading to windows 7 (from vista) and from reading this and other forums wish to do a clean install and not an update.

I simply want to know by doing this will it wipe my recovery partition that acer state is on a separate and hidden partition of the HDD.

Does a clean install format the drive (and therefore wipe the separate partition) and/or insist on partitioning (and therefore maybe wipe the separate partition). As you can see i dont know what a clean install of W7 will do exactly to my HDD and therefore to the recovery part.

I want to do a clean install and maintain the recovery partition that is on the HDD

In my computer the only drive visible is the C drive with approx 405 GB free from 455. In disk management there is another drive/partition that states it has 9.77GB that is 100% free. It has no name or file system just states it is healthy (EISA configuration). Is the recovery partition on the C drive and what will W7 clean install do to it

many thanks

 

I have posted this on 2 forums in 2 weeks and got no response....can someone tell me why.....is it just impossible to know?

 

It will only wipe the entire drive if instructed by the user to do so. Just pay attention to the partition layout that it's wanting to use, and make sure that it's not trying to remove anything that you want to stay. It's pretty straightforward.

If you have any further questions, just post them back here...