Its a 60 gb harddrive. D drive is called acer data. This is a problem
because I am running out of room. why do they do this?

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> Its a 60 gb harddrive. D drive is called acer data. This is a problem
> because I am running out of room. why do they do this?

I don't know why they do this. I had the same on my Acer Aspire.
I just formatted my drive and resorted the partitions the way I wanted.
I really love Acer products, I think their build quality is excellent, but
the way they ship their machines is pretty below par. The two partitions,
added junk, its just too messy.
Have you run out of room on both C and D partitions?

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> Its a 60 gb harddrive. D drive is called acer data. This is a problem
> because I am running out of room. why do they do this?
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Are you sure that the D drive is not a System Recovery partition?

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>> Its a 60 gb harddrive. D drive is called acer data. This is a problem
>> because I am running out of room. why do they do this?
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> Are you sure that the D drive is not a System Recovery partition?

No its not on the Acers. They have a strange system
They have a hidden partition of about 3Gb which is a recovery partition.
But on shipping they also split the drive into two:
C drive - OS
D drive - AcerData

AcerData is just a formatted partition. Even more frustrating is that on XP
they format it as Fat32

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> AcerData is just a formatted partition. Even more frustrating is that on
> XP they format it as Fat32


Then just re-format it in NTFS....if it's empty.....

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>> AcerData is just a formatted partition. Even more frustrating is that on
>> XP they format it as Fat32
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> Then just re-format it in NTFS....if it's empty.....

That is what I did when I first got my Acer last year.

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>>> AcerData is just a formatted partition. Even more frustrating is that
>>> on XP they format it as Fat32
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>> Then just re-format it in NTFS....if it's empty.....
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> That is what I did when I first got my Acer last year.
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I have to say that I have an Acer F1 desktop and on the two times I've
reformatted and re-installed XP Pro using the Acer recovery process, the HDD
is FAT32! And that's with XP Pro which is aimed at corporate use!

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>>> Its a 60 gb harddrive. D drive is called acer data. This is a problem
>>> because I am running out of room. why do they do this?
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>> Are you sure that the D drive is not a System Recovery partition?
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> No its not on the Acers. They have a strange system
> They have a hidden partition of about 3Gb which is a recovery partition.
> But on shipping they also split the drive into two:
> C drive - OS
> D drive - AcerData
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> AcerData is just a formatted partition. Even more frustrating is that
> on XP they format it as Fat32

I suspect the reason they provide "D" is to prevent the USER from losing
their data during a System Recovery which will overwrite everything on "C"!

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> I have to say that I have an Acer F1 desktop and on the two times I've
> reformatted and re-installed XP Pro using the Acer recovery process, the
> HDD is FAT32! And that's with XP Pro which is aimed at corporate use!

What I think makes the situation worse is that if you do reformat it to NTFS
you cannot actually use the Acer recovery process. I think this is a huge
oversight. Fat32 really is not used by many anymore and by making it like
that, people who do have a full system crash and cannot access hard drive
will not be able to restore their laptop.

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> I suspect the reason they provide "D" is to prevent the USER from losing
> their data during a System Recovery which will overwrite everything on
> "C"!

That is providing the user uses the D. Thats okay for experienced users who
want a partitioned drive, but many new users will not realise they can store
their information anywhere. And seeing the D called AcerData they may think
they cannot touch it.