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    DBAN on Acer Aspire 5532

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by jedimattk, Dec 25, 2009.

  1. jedimattk

    jedimattk Newbie

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    Hi, I recently purchased an Aspire 5532 from Best Buy. It came preinstalled with Windows 7 Home Premium and, as usual, the first thing I wanted to do was boot and nuke its hard drive. However, I have never owned an Acer notebook before and was surprised to see that the HDD was already partitioned three ways. Is it safe to nuke the hard drive, including the premade partitions, or might that damage my brand new computer?

    Sorry if this is newbish :S
     
    jedimattk, Dec 25, 2009
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  2. StormEffect

    StormEffect Lazer. *pew pew*

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    I would also like to know the answer to this! I was reformating an acer netbook for a friend recently and noticed FOUR partitions!!! I'm used to two or three, but not FOUR!

    It looked like there was the standard OS partition, a standard image partition, some kind of buffer partition, and what was labeled as an EFI bootloader partition!

    I was unaware that anyone besides Apple was using EFI at this point, can anyone shed some light on this?
     
    StormEffect, Dec 25, 2009
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  3. MBaran

    MBaran Notebook Geek

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    why would you nuke the HD? Just perform a quick format and be on your way. You're not trying to hide the factory acer data from anyone?
     
    MBaran, Dec 25, 2009
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