Disk Management vs Acronis

[RichardG]

Recently replaced an ACER factory load with a clean install of VISTA Home
Preimum. My HD has 3 partitions C (228gb), D (227gb), and hidden (9gb). Would
like to get rid of the hidden (ACER factory load ). My HD is 500 GB and my
total use is 51 GB on C. Would it make sense to create 3 partitions C (small)
for Vista and applications, D (small) for data and E (whats left) for
whatever. Is it possible / pratical to move the entire User folder to D or
would this actually cause more future trouble than it is worth. Can any of
this be done with Disk Management (when I right click on the hidden I get no
options) or is a third party solution required ? Or should I just leave well
enough alone.

Advice will be appreciated.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Recently replaced an ACER factory load with a clean install of VISTA Home
Preimum. My HD has 3 partitions C (228gb), D (227gb), and hidden (9gb).
Would
like to get rid of the hidden (ACER factory load ). My HD is 500 GB and my
total use is 51 GB on C. Would it make sense to create 3 partitions C
(small)
for Vista and applications, D (small) for data and E (whats left) for
whatever. Is it possible / pratical to move the entire User folder to D or
would this actually cause more future trouble than it is worth. Can any of
this be done with Disk Management (when I right click on the hidden I get
no
options) or is a third party solution required ? Or should I just leave
well
enough alone.

Advice will be appreciated.

If regaining the hidden partition is not critical, and it wouldn't appear to
be, I would leave it where it is. In fact, I would leave everything as it
is, saving time, money, and the possibility of having to start over..

If you are going to mess with the system, use Acronis Disk Director..

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[RichardG]

Mike

I think you are right. I am so unhappy with ACER that I was hoping to remove
any trace of the factory load from my machine. Now that I have a CLEAN
install of VISTA my Office Enterprise problem seems to be solved and the
entire system is working noticibly better than it did out of the box. I was
wondering if there was worthwhile performance improvements in having the
partition sizes more in keeping with the space I am using.

Thank you for the reply.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Mike

I think you are right. I am so unhappy with ACER that I was hoping to
remove
any trace of the factory load from my machine. Now that I have a CLEAN
install of VISTA my Office Enterprise problem seems to be solved and the
entire system is working noticibly better than it did out of the box. I
was
wondering if there was worthwhile performance improvements in having the
partition sizes more in keeping with the space I am using.

Thank you for the reply.

LOL. I can understand you being unhappy with Acer, but you would be best to
quit the avenging while you are ahead.

I doubt that you will get close to filling either partition up for some
while yet, so disk performance will remain high. The best part about having
smaller partitions is that they don't take so long to format. It is best to
do the partitioning during the initial OS install as this saves having to
mess with partitions containing data after the fact.

Acronis Disk Director manages hard drives very well and is reliable too, but
nothing is perfect and what was once good can crap out without due notice.

A hard drive can only hold four partitions, so even if you reduced the OS
partition to 80gb, you will still be left with two large partitions serving
no real purpose as yet, and will see no performance benefit from squeezing
Vista into 80gb.

In the event that you sell your machine on at some point, the Acer recovery
partition will come into its own.

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[RichardG]

Mike

I will take your advice. If there is no real advantage to tweaking the
partition sizes there is no point in possibly creating a lot of work. For a
while I was thinking that all the people that are slamming VISTA were right
but now that I have it properly installed ( it makes quite a difference ) I
like it.

Tahnk you for the advice

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

Mike

I will take your advice. If there is no real advantage to tweaking the
partition sizes there is no point in possibly creating a lot of work. For
a
while I was thinking that all the people that are slamming VISTA were
right
but now that I have it properly installed ( it makes quite a difference )
I
like it.

Tahnk you for the advice

The Vista slammers believe that they will become heroes in Windows folklore,
some setting up tests that are weighted towards XP, and others repeating the
results of those same tests. We saw it all before with the Win 2000/Win 98
vs XP wars back in 2002.

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