Acer Recovery Partition

funkyCable · 07-11-2011, 20:45

Hi,
I'm helping a mate with his Acer Aspire 5315 laptop. It has two partitions one C: 30gig and D: 30Gig. After a clean installation of vista there is 18 gig free on the C:. the D: has the Acer recovery partition which is only using 1gig. Is there some way I can remove the acer recovery partition so that he can use more of its space. I was thinkign repartition the D but I'm not sure why its configures like this.

Any help much appreciated

thenry · 07-11-2011, 20:54

D: probably had chunks of backups on it. disable the auto backup utility saving space and unnecessary backups being stored. you could try contacting Acer for a recovery disk but they may charge you. if you manage to get it format the drive and make sure you update the drivers.

v0id · 07-11-2011, 21:52

http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm

Make the factory recovery partions and/or backups of anydrivers/software product keys if they came preinstalled that you may want to keep before deleting/merging it as you won't be able to get it back afterwards.

I find it weird that you say the recovery partition is on 'D:' though, it's usually hidden

funkyCable · 07-11-2011, 22:01

Thanks vOid, I'll take a look. While I'm not 100% sure if it is just named "DATA".

v0id · 07-11-2011, 22:33

The data partition should just be for your user content and it's safe to format that and merge into the C: if you wish. Then you could keep the recovery partition 'just in case'

Right click 'Computer' from the Start menu, click 'Manage' then go to 'Disk Managment' and see whether it say it's a recovery one