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    Upgrading Windows XP > Windows Vista (2 Partitions, 1 PQService)

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by mtbman, Jan 25, 2007.

  1. mtbman

    mtbman Notebook Enthusiast

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    I own a TravelMate 8205WLMi and I am planning to upgrade to Windows Vista in the next week or so. I understand that there is a PQService hidden partition on my hard drive that is used for system recovery back to factory settings. If I upgrade to Windows Vista, I believe that I no longer need to have the PQService hidden partition on my hard drive as it only contains the recovery data for Windows XP and would only occupy space I could use on my hard drive rather than wasting space. Perhaps someone has already upgraded from Windows XP > Windows Vista and knows what to do? I read from another post within the Acer forum that Windows Vista just immediately wipes out the PQService partition, but no further information is given. As well, seeing that I do have 2 partitions, would Windows Vista be able to "re-format" both partitions to be used or rather, does it install it on the primary partition and leave Windows XP data on the secondary partition. One more thing, is it advisable to keep the 2 partitions or merge them into 1 big partition with Partition Magic 8.0
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    mtbman, Jan 25, 2007
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  2. Kas

    Kas Notebook Geek

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    If you do a clean install in Vista it will give you the choice to mange your partitions. You can delete them all, just one, make a new one, etc.

    Personally I would keep it in case of emergency.
     
    Kas, Jan 25, 2007
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  3. Amol

    Amol APH! NBR Reviewer

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    I would keep the recovery partition till the day that MS releases an SP or something for Vista - you never know what's going to happen. Besides, what's 3GB's going to do? Come on now, don't be that cheap on space - you can always get more in the form of external hard drives. :p
     
    Amol, Jan 25, 2007
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    orthorim Notebook Evangelist

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    For the record I installed Vista on the 2nd partition of my 8204 and went back to using XP.

    Vista is not really much worse than XP, but it's not really much better either. I will wait for SP2 before going Vista full time.
     
    orthorim, Jan 26, 2007
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