The Acerdata and Acer_Servic files are where Acer has placed its "recovery"
or "system" files. And, no, converting to NTFS will only convert the C:
drive. You would need to do a full format of the hard drive to eliminate
those files/partitions. BTW - My Acer C100 was NTFS when I received it.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Metavalent" <metavalent******.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>