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    recovery cd and deleted partitions

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by banderbe, Jun 14, 2006.

  1. banderbe

    banderbe Newbie

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    does the recovery cd work if you get rid of all the partitions and re-partition so there's just one partition and format it with NTFS?

    Or do you have to change the partitions back to the way they were?
     
    banderbe, Jun 14, 2006
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  2. Talon_Sr

    Talon_Sr Notebook Geek

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    I haven't tried it, but I don't think it will work with a NTFS format. It doesn't matter what number of partitions though.
     
    Talon_Sr, Jun 14, 2006
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  3. jaad75

    jaad75 Notebook Consultant

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    It works. I've converted original FAT32 partitions to NTFS and reinstalled the system using recovery DVD which I've burned in the beginning. C was reformated to FAT32 again (D was still in NTFS of course). I think that when you use it on one partition NTFS disk, you'll end up with reformating whole C drive to FAT32, no matter what size it is... But I've never tried it personally...
     
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    mikekram Newbie

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    I got recovery disks to work after deleting ALL the partitions.
     
    mikekram, Aug 27, 2007
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  5. Arla

    Arla Notebook Deity

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    I'll agree with that, I ran into some issues with recovery and ended up getting it to work after just deleting all the partitions and running it (at which point it created a partition spanning the entire disk).

    Prior to that it worked just fine (or claimed to) but left garbage on the disk.
     
    Arla, Aug 27, 2007
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