Acer laptop partition question,help.

[forthman]

My friends laptop has a 40 gig hardrive which consists of 2 partitions,C drive (acer) and D drive (acerdata).Each drive is 17.2 gigs.His C drive only has 1.4 gigs left,while the d drive is almost empty.Obviously the D drive (acerdata) is for recovery??Is there any simple way he can reclaim the d drive and use it for C drive without having to reformat?Why would Acer make the recovery partition so large?At the moment his c drive is full,but then again Acer only sets it up so that you only get half of useable hardrive space.Thanks.

[Kasakato]

You hard disk is just spilt in 1/2. One parition is for windows, the other is for gerenral apps. If you did your math, 17.2 * 2 = 34.4gb. That leaves ~6gb for the recovery/format space.

[forthman]

Ok thanks ,I guess.C(acer) drive is 17.08 gigs, acer data(d) is 17.25gigs,and pqservice is 2.93,(this must be the restore space).This is according to disk management.So there is no way to delete the d drive and recover that space for C:drive?Thanks.

[mortimusmaximus]

Actually a 40 gig drive is only 38 when formatted.Depending on what is on C drive he could just move some of the non essential files to the unused partition.He could also use a program like partition magic to do the drive resizing.The other thing is the recycle bin and system restore by default use huge portions of your drive.These can both be changed to reclaim disk space.

[Kasakato]

The only problem with messing with partitions is that it can be risky. I have locked up a couple hard disks that way.

[forthman]

Ok thanks,I forgot about the simple things like system restore and recycle bin.

[stuff352]

Acer laptops are decent but the crap they preinstall on it makes it feel too sluggish. I would reformat the drive - resize the partion - (30 - 8). I would further suggest that you do not use the rescue disk - install a different version of xp - a version that is not cluttered with all the accer crap. I just did this for a buddy and he cannot believe how much smoother it runs.