Wow. This is true. My Acer C111 has 2 FAT32 partitions and one FAT!
The FAT is 8MB and has no drive letter, and in the GUI Disk Management
tool it looks like:

ACER (C:) 46.10 GB
ACERDATA (D:) 9.76 GB
ACER_SERVIC 8 MB

Yep, complete with missing "E" in service.

So my question is, can CONVERT allow me to recover the fragmented
partitions? For the sake of simplicity, one would think that a single
NTFS partition would be the way to go, no? If CONVERT can't do it, then
back to the original question: can I do this with Partition Magic?

Thanks!




Jan wrote:
> Just for the statistics:
> My Acer TabletPC (and also the acer notebook of my friend) came preinstalled
> with FAT32 partitions.
> I can't tell why acer sell their TabletPCs with FAT32.
> But convert.exe did its job well.
>
> Jan
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
>
>
>>As others have said, it will almost certainly already be NTFS. But
>>irregardless, you can use the built in convert OR Partition Magic if you have
>>a license for that. Personally, I'd probably use Partition Magic, and also do
>>some re-partitioning at the same time, creating a C: and D: drive to
>>segregate my OS from my programs and data. Makes it easier to recover if you
>>need to, and easier to only back up what you really need to back up. Just
>>make sure you leave a nice, big OS drive. These days, I find 10Gb a rock
>>bottom minimum, and 20Gb about right. Even with that, I then move My
>>Documents off to the data drive, as well as Temporary Internet Files and
>>anything else I can easily move.
>>
>>--
>>Charlie.
>>
>>Raymond (testing1@axiscan.on-nets.com) wrote:
>>
>>>If it is FAT 32 by default after I buy, can I change it to NTFS for
>>>Tablet PC Edition?
>>>
>>>Raymond
>>>
>>>testing1@axiscan.on-nets.com
>>
>>
>>