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Old 12-30-2006, 10:41 PM   #1
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Reformat new Acer Aspire 5100

Hello all
I have a new acer aspire 5100 laptop with xp media with a 100GB HD and it seems to be partitioned 50/50 with acers recovery on half.
I would like to reformat xp pro can this be done w/o having a bunch of problems?
Thanks terry
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Old 12-31-2006, 08:27 AM   #2
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Yes, as long as you can obtain all necessary drivers and software. I would strongly recommend that you use the Acer utility to burn a full set of recovery media before you do anything.
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Old 12-31-2006, 10:21 AM   #3
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I did the same thing on my Acer laptop. Acer has all the drivers on their website. I downloaded them to a CD and it works great, doubled my hard drive space.
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