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[mkelbie]

I have formatted my C drive to do a clean install of Windows 8 on my Acer S3 and all has gone well except for the SSD cache. It is now a 20GB hibernation drive where as on Windows 7 it was 4GB hibernation and 16GB cache to improve performance.

I have retained the recovery partition so I can reinstall windows 7; will that reconfigure the SSD correctly too?

I much prefer to run windows 8 as a clean install so is there a way I can keep the recovery software and SSD cache and also know I have all the latest/correct drivers.

Alt F10 during boot runs the recovery partition but in a perfect world I would like to back that up extenally and replace it with a windows 8 recovery partition once I get all the drivers/software and SSD cache setup correctly.

I have read a few posts about Acer not offering their recover software or the Cache software but since I have it in the recovery partition is there anyway I can retain it to be used when I install Windows 8.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Matt

[Acer-Tommy]

The recovery partition is not something that you can change to utilize a different operating system.  It is specifically designed to recover the system with the original shipping operating system.

We do not support attempts to backup the recovery partition to external media other than making the Recovery media (optical or USB, depending on model) through the Recovery software we ship with the original operating system.

These links may give you more information:

Installing a different Operating System

Reloading your Acer computer