Re: Help me please - partitions and start up issues!

Brent

What came in the box with regard to disks and a manual?

What backup media capability do you have and what would you need?

What is on your D partition? How large is it? You refer to 9 mb, which
makes no sense. Do you mean 9 gb?

To investigate how you are using hard disk space you need to make sure
that you can see all files. Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options,
View, Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden
files and folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files
" is unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You
should also make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known
file types" is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View,
Details is selected and then select View, Choose Details and check
before Name, Type, Total Size, and Free Space.

You need a third party utility to remove a partition without destroying
files.

You can utilise your D partition by moving folders / files from your C
drive. However, we need to know if the computer supplier (was it Tiger
Direct?) has placed a back copy of Windows XP on your D drive?

I would have expected the hard drive to be formatted as NTFS not FAT 32.
It is relatively easy to convert from FAT32 to NTFS but you cannot
reverse the process.
http://kadaitcha.cx/ntfs.html


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England

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"Brent Jones" <BrentJones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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1. Occasionally when I power on my notebook (usually when it is
plugged into
a power supply or when attempting to bring it out of Standby Mode) it
gives
me an error message indicating that due to an improper shutdown, I
need to
set my system date and time accordingly before starting up my system.
These
messages occur with no pattern, and I have never shut down my system
improperly since I purchased it. This is very annoying because I have
owned
this system for less than a month, and that type of error message
should not
be happening, yet it occurs every couple of days. I bought an Acer
Aspire
5100 Notebook on November 15th, 2006.

2. I do not like how my alleged 120 GB hard drive has been partitioned
into
a C: and D: drive, splitting the available hard drive space in two.
From what
I can tell, the D: drive is seemingly useless, with only a few files
on it
consuming 9 MB. I would like someone to walk me through how to safely
remove
the D: drive and have one consistent drive (C:) to contain all system
and
user files... I do not want to lose any data in the process though!

3. I have heard that my notebook came with a FAT32 system structure. I
am
not sure what that means, but there is another type that begins with
an "N"
that is apparently better and when I upgrade to Vista, will run Vista
much
smoother. Does anyone know what I am talking about? Is it worth
changing the
structure? What will the benefits be? Will I lose any data in the
process?

Thank you very much for your assistance!


.

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