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08-15-2007, 11:07 AM
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Acer recovery program
I have a new acer travelmate 8210, it has 3 disk partiions, c , d, and the hidden pqservice partiion for recovery to factory settings. all 3 are formatted as FAT32, i want to convert to NTFS, what i want to know is will the recovery still work if I convert?
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08-15-2007, 11:33 AM
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Are you sure they are all formatted as FAT32? Any new computer with XP has or should have NTFS partitions. It's possible that the small recovery partition is FAT32 but I hight doubt that system partitions are.
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08-15-2007, 11:42 AM
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yes definatley all FAT32 right click my computer, celect manage and you can view all the disk properties
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08-15-2007, 11:55 AM
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That really surprises me that Acer would do that. I don't see any reason to use FAT32.
Anyway you can convert the partitions with out a reinstall or recovery via command prompt. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881 I don't know what that will do to you restore capabilities though. Last edited by Lespaul20; 08-15-2007 at 11:59 AM. |
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08-15-2007, 12:11 PM
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Don't do that to the restore partition! It's highly likely the OS they use for the restore sequence only supports FAT32 (many are linux based, but even if it isn't, the restore partition is FAT32 for a reason).
Certainly convert the C: partition if you want, but I don't see why you'd want/need to change the recovery partition...
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08-15-2007, 12:32 PM
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Yeah I forgot the mention to leave the restore partition alone, thanks Lefty. The reason I said that about the restore capabilities is I read somewhere that the restore needed a FAT32 partition to restore.
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