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hi, I just ran into a problem during my upgarding my laptops to win 8 pro from win 7 and also win 8 2) I have discovered that my laptop which came with win 8 which i upgraded to win 8 pro with a dvd, has had the contents of the hidden partition deleted in the upgrade process [as told to me...

To Theog, I have tried that,to create the recovery dvd's from the acer recovery management,got into the bios;also managed to restart and booted the laptop from the dvd drive,also got to the same options from winthin windows as well as from the first login page.And i have now finally spoken to...

hi, I have created the recovery drive on a usb stick but it does not boot.I have no idea how to get the pc to boot from the usb stick. And the Copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive box was greyed out. I have not deleted the recovery partition on the hdd.its still...

Hi, I do not have a Recovery CD from the Acer Recovery Software that you make to reset the pc back to factory default settings.And I then : 1) installed win 8 pro from dvd - and found I could not create a recovery dvd to reset pc back to factory default settings 2) reinstalled win 8 (not pro)...

To Mark, Yes that is what I thought! this pc was sent to the warranty dept for a small hardware problem.And I thought there should be some data in the recovery partition,something looked different.... oh dear .... thanks

To Adamf, What are the limitations of using the windows disk management software other than moving partitions around? So the disk management will always be able to shrink a currently in use c drive without any errors? I am also needing install win 8 pro and, I have created a repair cd from...

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To Adamf, thanks for the reply. I am just trying to create D drive for data,by shrinking c drive as there is no other space available. The existing partitions are: layout simple; type basic (both the same for all partitions ) 1) c drive 499gigs : where the os resides - boot, page etc 2)...

Hi, Are there options during the installation of win 8 to keep all user files when I am running win 7 and the win 8 cd is a full installation cd,that is it does not say it is an "upgrade version". Isnt win8 an upgrade ? so any win 8 installation is an upgrade??? Thanks in Advance

hi, I have read some threads other info about shrinking the c drive where the os is,but none have ever said that it cannot be shrunken using the windows provided disk management but seems to talk around it? Is it not a good idea to do this with the windows disk management software? thanks in...

Hi, I have an Acer aspire S3 Ultrabook Laptop (one of several laptops) and I am wanting to upgrade the os to win 8 pro. I have the win 8 pro pack,which is a full version i think,it does not say it is an "upgrade". Am i still able to use this win 8 pro pack to upgrade?( i thought upgrade packs...

no the "mute all other sounds" radio button isnt checked.Only the reduce sounds by 80% button is checked.So i assume there is a loose cable connection inside the laptop? I only found 1 flashplayer settings link in control panel,and one in chrome,which led to a pop up browser page that said it...

Hi, Yes i have done the above as shown in your post,as well as used the realtek software for a speaker sound test;and checked the volume sound link,the system sound test,and can see the realtek speakers as the default in control panel "sound" .There was no sound in any of the cases.But i can...

Hi, I have a laptop that has win 8 but not the Pro version.And it apparently does not have Bitlocker on it. I have the win 8 Pro upgrade software but i think its the full version which i bought for another pc.And the upgrading instructions on the outside of the box talks about upgrading from...

Thanks for the replies. The classic shell is good enough.Is win 8 Pro any better? I was actually told that win 8 pro runs much faster than win 7.