Easy Transfer problems

Thanks, Spencer,

Acer made me make my own restore DVD. I love the laptop - I already despise
the Acer support - none that I can find on the internet. I've registered,
etc. to no avail. And Acer has a lot of their own extra stuff - advertising
slide show, for example, that I will eventually find out how to remove.

I'm taking my Acer Aspire 5610-2273 back to Best Buy to try to get their
Geeks to help me solve various problems - mainly moving my settings, Outlook
Express, etc. to the new computer - FOR FREE! (I hope).

I can live with the inconvenient pair of 40gb disks if I have to - I had a
Sony that did that to me - I just put all my own files - pictures, etc. on
D:

I think I'll need that Good Luck.

<spencertaylor@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Did you get a full Vista OS disk from Acer, or is it an image disk?
You can use a partitioning program to resize the partition to 1 80 GB
space.
I use Partition Magic, but I don't know if it's Vista compatible.
There should be something out there that is, that you can probably get
as a trial or demo for 30 days.
That would definitely solve your problem. You can always do a clean
install of Vista from the disc, then use the partitioning tools.
Try www.partitionmagic.com
Like I said, though, I don't know if you can use it w/ Vista.
Good Luck!
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On Feb 19, 11:49 am, "Paul H" <NoSpamphobergNoS...@att.net> wrote:

> My new Acer Pentium laptop w/1gb and Vista Home Premium has an 80gb disk
> set
> up as 2 40gb disks. Why - I don't know, and hate it. But I guess I'm
> stuck. When I tried use the Vista Easy Transfer utility to move my
> settings
> and etc. from my old 40gb HP laptop, it stopped, having filled up c: and
> giving no option except to click OK. No suggested solutions, no way to
> "undo". Now I'm stuck - no room hardly on C:, no Outlook Express on the
> new
> computer, a few folders on the root of c:, some icons on my screen, ???
> What a mess. I don't want to start over. But maybe, if I can do it and
> start with one large 80gb disk it would be worth the agony. Any
> suggestions
> for an easier solution?
>
> I can see some files on my Vista - public only - using my in house
> Ethernet
> network, so a few things are working. But I want to see all my files, not
> just "public".
>
> Thanks in advance, Paul

On Feb 19, 3:00 pm, "Paul H" <NoSpamphobergNoS...@att.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Spencer,
>
> Acer made me make my own restore DVD. I love the laptop - I already despise
> the Acer support - none that I can find on the internet. I've registered,
> etc. to no avail. And Acer has a lot of their own extra stuff - advertising
> slide show, for example, that I will eventually find out how to remove.
>
> I'm taking my Acer Aspire 5610-2273 back to Best Buy to try to get their
> Geeks to help me solve various problems - mainly moving my settings, Outlook
> Express, etc. to the new computer - FOR FREE! (I hope).
>
> I can live with the inconvenient pair of 40gb disks if I have to - I had a
> Sony that did that to me - I just put all my own files - pictures, etc. on
> D:
>
> I think I'll need that Good Luck.
>
> <spencertay...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1171913271.624511.179750@a75g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...
>
> Did you get a full Vista OS disk from Acer, or is it an image disk?
> You can use a partitioning program to resize the partition to 1 80 GB
> space.
> I use Partition Magic, but I don't know if it's Vista compatible.
> There should be something out there that is, that you can probably get
> as a trial or demo for 30 days.
> That would definitely solve your problem. You can always do a clean
> install of Vista from the disc, then use the partitioning tools.
> Trywww.partitionmagic.com
> Like I said, though, I don't know if you can use it w/ Vista.
> Good Luck!
> ===================================
>
> On Feb 19, 11:49 am, "Paul H" <NoSpamphobergNoS...@att.net> wrote:
>
>
>

> > My new Acer Pentium laptop w/1gb and Vista Home Premium has an 80gb disk
> > set
> > up as 2 40gb disks. Why - I don't know, and hate it. But I guess I'm
> > stuck. When I tried use the Vista Easy Transfer utility to move my
> > settings
> > and etc. from my old 40gb HP laptop, it stopped, having filled up c: and
> > giving no option except to click OK. No suggested solutions, no way to
> > "undo". Now I'm stuck - no room hardly on C:, no Outlook Express on the
> > new
> > computer, a few folders on the root of c:, some icons on my screen, ???
> > What a mess. I don't want to start over. But maybe, if I can do it and
> > start with one large 80gb disk it would be worth the agony. Any
> > suggestions
> > for an easier solution?

>

> > I can see some files on my Vista - public only - using my in house
> > Ethernet
> > network, so a few things are working. But I want to see all my files, not
> > just "public".

>

> > Thanks in advance, Paul- Hide quoted text -

>
> - Show quoted text -

Cheers! Good Luck.