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PostPosted: 2005-09-04 10:45:08
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Hello Everyone,

I have recently purchased a Acer Travelmate c110 from ebay.

This laptop came with no reinstall disks at all, the previous owner claimed
he wasnt supplied them with the system. However it did come with the
windows certificate of authenticity, and the Windows XP Tablet edition
serial number.

Now, what I have noticed is, there are actually 2 partitions on the system,
a 30gig slice being used as my C: drive and a 9 gig slice as D:, however
this drive has the label userdata. With roughly 1.40gig in use.

In my past experience I have known manufacturers ship, new systems with a
separate partition, which is used to contain the OEM reinstall information.
I am just wondering if this could be the case with the acer system in
question. And if so, how can I access this slice to reinstall the system, as
the system does not come with a cdrom or floppy drive.

Thanks in advance
Mick


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higgy
 Post subject: Acer Laptop
PostPosted: 2005-09-04 10:09:04
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Materialised wrote:

/snip

> In my past experience I have known manufacturers ship, new systems
> with a separate partition, which is used to contain the OEM reinstall
> information. I am just wondering if this could be the case with the
> acer system in question. And if so, how can I access this slice to
> reinstall the system, as the system does not come with a cdrom or
> floppy drive.

There may be a key combination to boot from the hidden partition. I
*think* on my 3022 it was Alt-F7, but I cant check, because its off
for repair. I do remember there was a reference to it in the bios menu,
though, so it might be worth looking there (usually press F2 or
Delete during boot-up, to enter most bios menus).

HTH.


higgy.


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Dennis Pogson
 Post subject: Acer Laptop
PostPosted: 2005-09-04 10:23:33
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Materialised wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have recently purchased a Acer Travelmate c110 from ebay.
>
> This laptop came with no reinstall disks at all, the previous owner
> claimed he wasnt supplied them with the system. However it did come
> with the windows certificate of authenticity, and the Windows XP
> Tablet edition serial number.
>
> Now, what I have noticed is, there are actually 2 partitions on the
> system, a 30gig slice being used as my C: drive and a 9 gig slice as
> D:, however this drive has the label userdata. With roughly 1.40gig
> in use.
>
> In my past experience I have known manufacturers ship, new systems
> with a separate partition, which is used to contain the OEM reinstall
> information. I am just wondering if this could be the case with the
> acer system in question. And if so, how can I access this slice to
> reinstall the system, as the system does not come with a cdrom or
> floppy drive.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mick

Do you mean you cant access D:? Then how do you know its there?


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Dennis Pogson
 Post subject: Acer Laptop
PostPosted: 2005-09-04 10:23:33
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Materialised wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have recently purchased a Acer Travelmate c110 from ebay.
>
> This laptop came with no reinstall disks at all, the previous owner
> claimed he wasnt supplied them with the system. However it did come
> with the windows certificate of authenticity, and the Windows XP
> Tablet edition serial number.
>
> Now, what I have noticed is, there are actually 2 partitions on the
> system, a 30gig slice being used as my C: drive and a 9 gig slice as
> D:, however this drive has the label userdata. With roughly 1.40gig
> in use.
>
> In my past experience I have known manufacturers ship, new systems
> with a separate partition, which is used to contain the OEM reinstall
> information. I am just wondering if this could be the case with the
> acer system in question. And if so, how can I access this slice to
> reinstall the system, as the system does not come with a cdrom or
> floppy drive.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mick

Do you mean you cant access D:? Then how do you know its there?


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Pilgarlick
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PostPosted: 2005-09-04 15:38:07
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> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have recently purchased a Acer Travelmate c110 from ebay.
>
> This laptop came with no reinstall disks at all, the previous owner
> claimed he wasnt supplied them with the system. However it did come with
> the windows certificate of authenticity, and the Windows XP Tablet edition
> serial number.
>
> Now, what I have noticed is, there are actually 2 partitions on the
> system, a 30gig slice being used as my C: drive and a 9 gig slice as D:,
> however this drive has the label userdata. With roughly 1.40gig in use.
>
> In my past experience I have known manufacturers ship, new systems with a
> separate partition, which is used to contain the OEM reinstall
> information. I am just wondering if this could be the case with the acer
> system in question. And if so, how can I access this slice to reinstall
> the system, as the system does not come with a cdrom or floppy drive.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mick
>
>
My Acer was supplied with a data partition (their term) from new.
Presumably this is what you see rather than the hidden sectors used as a
recovery strategy by some manufacturers. If you want rid of the sector one
of the sector management progs should do this for you, or if you want a
clean install of your own o/s then remove all partitions via Fdisk before
installation. Even better, and more secure, use Killdisk before you install
anything to remove any potential for virus/ trojan retention.

Regards

Pilgarlick


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