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Acer Travelmate 5720-6754 factory partition?

post #1 of 7
Thread Starter 
Hello everyone,

I just did a 'restore to factory default' on my Acer Travelmate 5720-6754 laptop by pressing ALT+F10 during the bootup to get to the eRecovery and restored the computer to factory default.

There is a partition that is 30gb + 30gb which makes both pretty darn small. Is there a way I can merge these two hard drives? My only fear is that there are a bunch of folders on the secondary (acerdata d drive with names like 80bbadfe5760 and in these folders are stuff like amd64, malicious software removal from microsoft, and even a hidden folder called msdownld.tmp.

Also, from what I understand the eRecovery files themselves are on a hidden partition...is that 'hidden partition' this 'acerdata' drive? If i somehow remove the partition, where do the files on this second drive go? If i perform an eRecovery again, will it reform the partition, or will it not even be able to perform a recovery due to the missing files?

Please help me merge these drives, thanks for the help!
post #2 of 7
. Back up the "data" partition to an external

. format it

. If you use Vista, use its disk management to extend the volume of "C"

. Restore your saved data to a folder on C.

. The recovery partition will be left alone.

cheers ...
post #3 of 7
Thread Starter 
when you say the recovery partition will be left alone, do you mean that this visible 'acerdata' drive has nothing to do with eRecovery?

i'm on XP so i'll have to use something like PartitionMagic i'm guessing...
post #4 of 7
Can you give us screen shot of the Windows disk management, use the full windows? I want to be sure, but I am certain that "acerdata" partition that you see and can access, is not the recovery partition.

For XP I always use EaseUS. Just try not to be fancy about it.

cheers ...
post #5 of 7
Thread Starter 
here's a screenshot of the disk management window:

post #6 of 7
Cool. I stay with post#2 suggestion above, adding NTFS to the format and you have no data to back-up as I see from the screen shot.

cheers ...
post #7 of 7
Thread Starter 
excellent, thanks for the help! i'll perform the operation tonight and will post here if something terrible happens (hopefully not, heh)
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