Acer recovery partition

[Randy Jonasz]

On 14-02-18 11:01 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
> Are you talking about using the recovery partition or installation 
> disk, or just during the regular usage of Windows?
I used the recovery partition to reset Windows to factory default before 
upgrading to 8.1.  I then discovered my partitions had been moved around 
without any warning.  Go figure.


> Unfortunately there's always something that requires me to go back to 
> Windows so I keep it around just in case.
After I removed Windows, I got a company version of Windows 7 for 
testing and put it in Virtual Box.  There Microsoft cannot screw up my 
computer.

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