Hello,

I have the Acer TravelMate 8215 WLMi laptop, with 160GB harddisk, and running on Windows XP Pro SP3.

I recently accidentally deleted the PQSERVICE hidden partition, and have tried several ways to restore the PQSERVICE hidden partition, but not successful, unless I send to service center, but I rather do it myself as an experience.

I tried to create one single full NTFS partition, as C: Drive, and use an external USB harddisk 120GB as D: Drive 60GB FAT32 and E: Drive 60GB NTFS.

So far so good, but sometimes encounter system hangs and unable to shutdown.

My using of the laptop purposes are more on multimedias, like web designing, videos editing, and media files converting and etc...

I would like to know to create 1 single harddisk as a single partition, will there cause any inconvenience, or anybody have any experiences on that?

Please share.

Many Thanks.

the easiest method I've found of adjusting partitions is as follows:

1.) download and burn to disk an Ubuntu Linux LiveCD
2.) boot with the disc to Ubuntu
3.) use the partition manager to delete the non-system partition on your hard drive and then extend the system partition to fill the rest of the drive space
4.) when you're done, choose restart, remove the Ubuntu disc when it tells you to, and reboot back into Windows. Disk Check will run and after that you should be good to go

Thanks bro,

I think you understand what i am trying to say. However, the Ubuntu Linux CD, there's 2 version, Desktop and Server, which one shall I select, and what is the more stable version?

Regards