Hey everyone.
I was wondering if any of you have had a chance to repartition your laptop HDs that came with your laptop. I just recently purchased a Ferrari 4000 notebook ( made by acer and it came with windows XP Pro) and am not happy with how they partitioned the drive (they partitioned it to 45gigs and 45 gigs) I was hoping to get this down to or around 15-20 gigs for my C drive and the rest for my D drive, while at the same time not touching the hidden partition that was installed on my computer.
A few ways that I have considered to do this were:
a) purchase partition magic and redo the partitions that way
b) insert a copy of windows XP to delete the partitions and recreate them, and then reinstall the factory partition that came with my laptop onto the C drive.
I have done this many times using a a personal custom built desktop, so i am familiar on how to do this, and was wondering if it was the same for a notebook. One think i do not know how to do is to reinstall a back up copy of my system into a new partitions. Since my back-ups are bootable, would it just automatically promt me to install the back up onto a drive, or is there any special way of doing this?
I would like to carry this out using option B, but do not have much experience doing so with a laptop. A few questions that I have are if it is possible to do this that way, and was wondering if anyone has done it before so that i know it can be done. I already have several back-ups of my system (the hidden partition, recovery disks, and a burnt dvd back-up that acer required me to make), so i am not too worried about ruining anything.
What i wanted to make sure is if this is plausable or possible to do.
Also, I was wondering if anyone could guide me on how to update my ati video drivers on this notebook, since the ones that came with it are out of date. Would I have to use a program such as drive cleaner to clean out the drivers and then reinstall newer drivers, or is there another special way to do this? (The acer website does not currently have an updated version of the catalyst drivers up, so going to their website is not an option.) I had also called up tech support, and they couldnt help be because they can only troubleshoot with the factory default settings and drivers, and what is provided on the acer website for download.
Any help would be appriciated.
Thanks
Raven
I was wondering if any of you have had a chance to repartition your laptop HDs that came with your laptop. I just recently purchased a Ferrari 4000 notebook ( made by acer and it came with windows XP Pro) and am not happy with how they partitioned the drive (they partitioned it to 45gigs and 45 gigs) I was hoping to get this down to or around 15-20 gigs for my C drive and the rest for my D drive, while at the same time not touching the hidden partition that was installed on my computer.
A few ways that I have considered to do this were:
a) purchase partition magic and redo the partitions that way
b) insert a copy of windows XP to delete the partitions and recreate them, and then reinstall the factory partition that came with my laptop onto the C drive.
I have done this many times using a a personal custom built desktop, so i am familiar on how to do this, and was wondering if it was the same for a notebook. One think i do not know how to do is to reinstall a back up copy of my system into a new partitions. Since my back-ups are bootable, would it just automatically promt me to install the back up onto a drive, or is there any special way of doing this?
I would like to carry this out using option B, but do not have much experience doing so with a laptop. A few questions that I have are if it is possible to do this that way, and was wondering if anyone has done it before so that i know it can be done. I already have several back-ups of my system (the hidden partition, recovery disks, and a burnt dvd back-up that acer required me to make), so i am not too worried about ruining anything.
What i wanted to make sure is if this is plausable or possible to do.
Also, I was wondering if anyone could guide me on how to update my ati video drivers on this notebook, since the ones that came with it are out of date. Would I have to use a program such as drive cleaner to clean out the drivers and then reinstall newer drivers, or is there another special way to do this? (The acer website does not currently have an updated version of the catalyst drivers up, so going to their website is not an option.) I had also called up tech support, and they couldnt help be because they can only troubleshoot with the factory default settings and drivers, and what is provided on the acer website for download.
Any help would be appriciated.
Thanks
Raven