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How to reformat acer aspire laptop drive?

post #1 of 4
12/23/04 at 2:04am
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I have an Acer Aspire 2025 laptop which does not come with a windows disk. I have 3 or 4 recoverey disks which also installs all of acer's junk with it.

I tried copying the i386 folder from the hard drive onto a bootable cd , but when I boot with the cd and try to run winnt.exe I get an error which says setup cannot continue no place found for swap file. Anyway I can use this i386 folder to reformat the hard drive?

Thanks,
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post #2 of 4
12/23/04 at 3:26am
Are you just trying to save disk spac, if so, all you need to do is delete the "D" partition and that will recover about 10GB.
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post #3 of 4
12/24/04 at 11:47am
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Disc space and I'd just like to be able to install from a plain windows disc, so I can install all the newest driver's upfront instead of having to install over acer's old driver's from the recoverey cd.
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1/16/07 at 1:16pm
try using a bootcd like hirens bootcd u can fing this cd very, very helpful. its an iso image so if u find it u need to burn it using any applet like nero or any other similar its a 50mb iso. by the way u can use a copy of a normal xp boot cd to do the same job. but if u want to go a step further u can creat ur own xp install cd using nlite @ www.nliteos.com and a virtual machine programa like vmware to try ur new xp cd.
but i think that the hirens bootcd its much more useful if u want to just format ur hd.
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