Notebooks & Netbooks

[stiller]

well, this is useful forum, but not as useful, as should be, so I start detailed theme, though exist many pages of undetailed, and I make detaild always.

Using some guides, here I show you the guide to open 2 hidden partitions of acer, though one of them will be available after this procedure only till reboot.

Well, my question is, This acer has 2 these partitions one for 10 gb and one for 3.6 GB. about, so, what you guys think, for is the first one and the second one for? And why they are so large? as I made full backup after installing about 8 application and I have only 6.89 GB.
Anpother question is, May I remove 3.6gb partition and also remove every data on 10 gb. partition and then to reduce its space to suit my 6.89gb. full user backup, as then I will have possibility to restore from my backup, with no need to install google chrome, skype, k-lite kodec pack and so on. Let`s cheer with the short and detailed answers.

[stiller]

any help? or should I rite directly to support? 

[miguel69]

DON'T DO IT!!!

the 10GB partition <PQservice> is the factory recovery partition. it lets you press alt+F10 to re-install a fresh copy of the OS and also to burn the recovery disks.  however if there is a lot of free space you could shrink it to the size of the actual data in it using diskmgmt.msc or similar.

the only time you would want to get rid of it is if you upgrade to a different OS, never want to go back, and have a full install copy of the new OS not an upgrade copy.

the other one is created by the OS for error recovery.