ACER S7-392. ONE OF THE RECOVERY PARTITION DELEATED RESULTING UNALLOCATED SPACE

krishenacharia · January 2016

One of the recovery partition has been delated leeaving unallocated space.

How it can be restored to avoid future recovery problem

Sixe vaiations in recovery drives made now and when new are as below:-

SIZE DIFFERENCEE IN REECOVERY DISK MADE ON 15MAY2015 ON RECEIPT OF NEW PC.

15.8GB

Boot 16MB (19 files 2 folder)

EFI 14.5MB (19 files 5 folders)

Sources 15.7GB (40 files 4 folders)

Boot Manager 394kb

EFI Manager 157kb

Reagent 2kb

AND

Made on 11 January 2016 on receipt of pc after repairs.

13.7GB

Boot 16MB (19 files 2 folders)

EFI 14.5MB (19 FILES 5 FOLDERS)

SOURCES 13.7GB (39 FILES 4 FOLDERS)

Bootmgr 418kb

Bootmgr.efi 1575kb

Reagent 2kb

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IronFly · January 2016

Have you tried to create a recovery media?

i don't think that size difference can be something really bad, maybe it's just a better compression or a windows build version change.

which version of windows OS is installed now?

krishenacharia · January 2016

Windows 8.1 Pro is installed the moment.

Thanks for yoru interest.

IronFly · January 2016

ok, so try to make a factory recovery:

http://acer--uk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/26286/~/create-a-acer-factory-default-backup-in-windows-8.1

then i suggest you to upgrade to windows 10, your laptop deserves it. Smiley Happy

krishenacharia · January 2016

Sorry I did not resspond t your question about recovery media. Yes the two recovery media USB sticks were made as mentioned in the question.

krishenacharia · January 2016

I have already made a recovery usb flash drive and this is smlaler in size than the one I made when I got the pc new..

One file of 2GB size is missing in the folder Sources.

I had upgraded to windows 10 and was faced with many problems and Acer advised to go back to windows 8

Thanks for your help

IronFly · January 2016

about windows 10 issues, it's a bit strange, i have a S7-393 and it's running smoothly.

2GB less is a lot, maybe the actual partition is missing some Acer software; if you still have the bigger one on the USB flash drive, keep it and use it to restore your system in the worst case.

JordanB · January 2016

Isn't S7-392 Haswell?

S7-393 is newer Broadwell?

Different platforms. Lots of Acer Haswells have problems with Windows 10. But I'm sure they're working on it as we speak.

IronFly · January 2016

yes, you are correct Jordan.

JordanB · January 2016

I'm commenting on it because you said it's "strange". Unfortunately we all don't have newer Broadwell or Skylake.

krishenacharia · January 2016

I am obliged to see your remarks as it makes the readers aware of the issue.

In view of your knowledge and experience I seek your personal help.

1. My hard drive has been reimaged by Acer repair centre yet it is the same as before-nothing changed at all.

2. I was not offered when I had this pc after reimage to make recovery disks or even recovery key which I made any way. Can you please give me instructions as to how I can make recovery disks or only solution is to buy from Acer for £50.06?

Look forward to you advice. Thanks

Kind regards

Kris