W1-810

Having purchased this last week and on its first boot I had a message onscreen that I should copy the Recovery Drive to a USB stick and that would allow me to delete the Recovery Partition and give me more space on the C drive. The link to delete the drive had no effect and using Disk manager will not allow me to delete the recovery partition.

The following day I updated it to windows 10 and a further Recovery Partition was placed on my drive.

My first question is can I delete these Recovery Partitions and how can I achieve it.

My second question is how do I make a recovery drive for Windows 10 as the software on my tablet will not work anymore.

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padgett

If you did not create a recovery drive and save a full system image BEFORE updating to Windows 10 and now it does not work then you will probably need to purchase a recovery drive from ACER.

That said could you be more specific with your problem please ? What happens when you boot ?. AFAIR the W1-810 only has 1 GB of memory and is not really suited to anything later than XP. Anything else is going to do a lot of page swapping and be very slow.

jterryc

Thanks for the rely padgett

Yes I did make a recovery drive on an 8GB USB stick , I also backed up the drivers onto a 2GB USB stick that is not the problem. The E Recovery software stated that once completed the recovery partition could be deleted to release the 25% of the 32GB drive back to the user. There was a hyperlink to do this, which did nothing. My question is how do I delete the partion to recover that disk space.

The second part of the original post asked , now I have updated to Win 10 the original Recovery Drive is for Win 8.1 is there a way of creating a USB Recovery drive to recover to Windows 10 as the originl software supplied to tablet is no longer available. The Win 7 System Image and System repair disc combo are not really an option with one USB port.

As to not being suited to anything above XP, depends what you are doing. I've not had a problem in the last week.

padgett

The same image capability is in Win 10, just now it is under File History.

jterryc

Sorry for the late reply, I have been on a sunbed in Lanzarote, but I have found the answer to my question. If anyone is interested here is what I did. This is only applicable to units updated from windows 8.1

Ensure you have Created a recovery Drive Prior to updating to Windows 10.

Using a very good Free tool called MiniTool Partitioning Wizard.[MTPW]

1. Using MTPW, highlight the 6GB + Acer Recovery Partion on the end of Disk 0 and select delete.(you no longer need this as your USB recovery drive contains this) Apply this before going on to 2.

2. The 450 MB Recovery Partition that was created during the update to Windows 10 is required, but needs to be moved to the end of Drive. This can be done by highlighting it and using the Move/Resize option in MTPW. Again Apply this change

3. Highlight the Acer Partion (Drive C Smiley Happy and using the Extend option in MTPW and use all available space. Apply and you have a C: drive 6GB+ bigger.

The windows 10 Image can now be saved to a external HDD drive (Window 10 will not accept a USB stick) and can be restored using windows 10 recovery tools.

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