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    partitoning your disk for free

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by damole, Jan 11, 2007.

  1. damole

    damole Notebook Consultant

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    I've read lots of threads about how to get your Acer partitioned the way you want it so I tried so I tried the GParted -- LiveCD on my Aspire 9113 but it crashes even though it worked fine on my old Dell Inspiron.

    Anyways searching for answers I came across Partition Manager which appears to be a fully featured demo.

    I've since extended my C partition and now I'm actually going to try merging C and D completely although I'll take the precaution of moving all the data from D to C first.
     
    damole, Jan 11, 2007
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    Kas Notebook Geek

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    Why not just format and use windows manager?
     
    Kas, Jan 12, 2007
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    damole Notebook Consultant

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    I didn't want to have to go through the hassle of backing up my data so using Windows was not really an option.

    The bad news is after running the merge wizard I left the program doing it's thing and came back a few hours later to a NTLDR not found at the boot screen. I tried using a regular Windows XP setup disk to install Windows on the D partition so I could rescue the data on C but it terminated the install with a c drive is corrupt message, luckily their was no really critical data on the laptop as it is my gaming and entertainment box. I then decided not to merge the partition completely but leave a 10 GB D partition where I could keep data I would want to keep when it's time for the next clean install, I used the Windows XP setup disk for this and then the Acer recovery disk to rebuild Windows.

    I'm not sure why Partition Manager failed on the merge operation but I would be very careful before using it again.
     
    damole, Jan 14, 2007
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