Starting a fresh help - +4 rep (aww only 4? yeh soz)

[Suspective]

I have an Acer Aspire (Vista) and it already has a recovery partition as stated above. It is a good back-up, even though I haven't used it. I completely forgot about making a back-up disc on the first start-up.

[Markeh]

I believe the recovery partition actually uses a copy of XP. well, on my old Aspire, when I had to use the recovery partition, it came up with the XP loading screen.

[The Professor]

I believe the recovery partition actually uses a copy of XP. well, on my old Aspire, when I had to use the recovery partition, it came up with the XP loading screen.

That's nothing, the recovery disc for my packard bell came up with a windows 98 loading screen seeing that 10 years later brought back some memories (A)

[AlexOC]

in my computer it says:

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Hard Disk Drives (2)

Acer (C: ) 498gb total
DATA (D: ) 498gb total

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thats two seperate hard drives right??

I'm installing all my programs on acer, and gonna put all my files in data (its empty atm)

[The Professor]

AFAIK windows explorer doesn't know the difference between paritioned drives and separate physical drives because thats essentially what paritioning is; tricking the computer into thinking one hard drive is two. Its unlikely your laptop has two separate hard drives in it though that is usually a high end thing.

[AlexOC]

Are you talking to me?

If so, it's a PC

[The Professor]

Oh lol why did I think it was a laptop?

Erm open it up and take a look then

[AlexOC]

Eeh By Gum.

No thanks, i have a tendency of breaking things. Never mind i will just store of files in data and programs in acer