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Need help with my new vista laptop.

furryrabidbunny

furryrabidbunny

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I bought a cheap vista lapton (399) because I'll be living in a hotel in central phoenix while in the police academy. For some reason, Acer created a C and D drive, with the D drive being called Data? Does anyone know how to repartition the drive during a vista install so I can have a single drive?
 
furryrabidbunny said:
I bought a cheap vista lapton (399) because I'll be living in a hotel in central phoenix while in the police academy. For some reason, Acer created a C and D drive, with the D drive being called Data? Does anyone know how to repartition the drive during a vista install so I can have a single drive?
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Are you sure that D isn't the optical drive?
 
xUKHCx said:
My sisters Acer also came partitioned like that.
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Did you happen to fix it for her? I'm trying to figure out how to do it from the vista install, but it works nothing like an xp install. I'm thinking about installing xp then vista, but I'm scared it wont work.
 
furryrabidbunny said:
Did you happen to fix it for her? I'm trying to figure out how to do it from the vista install, but it works nothing like an xp install. I'm thinking about installing xp then vista, but I'm scared it wont work.
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I just left it like that, she bought it with the vista upgrade plan and her disk is currently in the post, was going to sort it when installing vista, so am really interested in finding out the answer.
 
xUKHCx said:
I just left it like that, she bought it with the vista upgrade plan and her disk is currently in the post, was going to sort it when installing vista, so am really interested in finding out the answer.
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For some reason, mine came with an install CD. the case that says upgrade your windows vista experience actually contains the vista home basic install, so I wasted about a half hour last night making backup discs.
 
I'm an idiot. It says to make changes to the partition restart from the disc. To do that in windows you hold down on "c" key right?
 
Depends, on how far Cd is up on the Boot order. Put in the CD, turn it off, then turn it back on again, and see if it starts to boot from cd.
 
Well, when it boots, and flashes an Acer screen, does it say anything about Setup? Like "Press XYZ to enter setup"?
 
i selected vista, then options, then repair vista. I'm getting system recovery options now. don't think I can do what i'm trying to do.
 
I tried F8 and it booted into vista, so I'll restart and try delete next. I hate windows. If only Apple made a barely usable 400 dollar laptop.
 
It is quite often called "Boot Device Priority" or Boot Sequence.

If you know the model number or series you could try google to see if someone has posted how to change the boot to a cd, worth a try.
 
Okay

Found it. Guess I wasn't hitting F2 quick enough. I set the cdrom as number one. So when I restart should I hold down the C key? And once this is all done, should I reset the boot order?
 
You trying to repartition for a fresh install? If so, then you just boot from the installation disk and follow the directiions. When it gets to the destination for the install you can delete and recreate any partition you want.

If you are trying to repartition and you DON'T want to destroy your install, you better use Partition Magic or similar product. If you don't, you'll hose the computer royal.
 
Swarmlord said:
You trying to repartition for a fresh install? If so, then you just boot from the installation disk and follow the directiions. When it gets to the destination for the install you can delete and recreate any partition you want.

If you are trying to repartition and you DON'T want to destroy your install, you better use Partition Magic or similar product. If you don't, you'll hose the computer royal.
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Thats been the problem I wasn't able to boot from the install CD. And I want a fresh install anyway, way too much acer crap on this laptop.
 
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