Acer recovery partition

[Tim Tisdall]

Are you talking about using the recovery partition or installation disk, or
just during the regular usage of Windows?

Unfortunately there's always something that requires me to go back to
Windows so I keep it around just in case.


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Randy Jonasz <rjonasz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 14-02-18 09:57 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
>
>> I had something strange and quite annoying happen yesterday and wanted to
>> know if anyone else has ever had a similar experience...
>>
>> I ran the recovery partition on my Acer Aspire laptop.  I was given 3
>> options:  reset to factory settings, re-install windows but keep user
>> settings, and exit.  I chose "exit".  However, after the system rebooted I
>> was then shown the grub recovery prompt with a message that the partition
>> didn't exist.
>>
>> After some investigation with a bootable USB drive I discovered that my
>> Linux partition had been deleted!  Thankfully testdisk was able to recover
>> the partition for me, but what happened??  The recovery partition seems to
>> go ahead and delete your Linux partitions without asking.
>>
>>  Yeah, I had a similar experience with Windows but it didn't delete
> partitions it just moved them around, so swap was no longer sda3 but sda6.
>  I deleted windows from my computer and have been worry free ever since.
>
> Randy
>
>
>
>  -Tim
>>
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