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acer notebook harddrive help

by kyleryanm Jul 4, 2007 7:57AM PDT

I have just bought a acer aspire 5100 notebook my problem is that it has two harddrive partitions one called acer(c which holds everything the windows file and program files everything basically
and a second partition called DATA(D which holds nothing. My problem is that the acer partition has only 10.5 gigs free of 51.6 gigs and the second partition (DATA) has 51.2 gigs free of 51.3 gigs
i have only installed a few programs and i will install more than 10.5 gigs so i want to know if i can get rid of that partition but it has .1 gig being used im not sure if thats where the recovery is here i cant see any files using windows explorer but i can using win rar i will attach pics.

Thank you, kyleryanm

my hard drive

http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=acerharddriveeg1.jpg

DATA partition contents

http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=datash2.jpg

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While I'd call Acer first...

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 4, 2007 8:59AM PDT

Here's why. One of my Acer's came with a utility to resize this. I do not own your model so what was on my old Acer may not apply. It would seem a shame to use Partition Magic before asking if they supply such with the machine.

Bob

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There's can, and then there's should

by jackson dougless Jul 4, 2007 9:12AM PDT

You CAN get rid of that partition, but I wouldn't recommend it.

What you might consider doing is using a program, such as Partition Magic though there are others, and either completely merge the data partition with the acer partition, or just divert some of the data partition space to the acer partition.

Just keep in mind that these programs aren't fool proof, so be sure to have backups of everything before starting.

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