Having formated to NTFS, and realised the hard way that the 9700
drivers only work if installed first from the System CD then from any
web drivers, I wanted to add back in the startup sound.

Sadly, I cannot find it on the system cd. Does it exist there? If so
can you advise or failing that, can you e-mail me the wav? Thanks

Harcon, did your ferrari come formatted FAT32 initially? I'm asking because
a friend of mine just got a Ferrari (model unknown) and the 80gb hard drive
came partitioned into to 40gb drives both FAT32 which really seemed odd to
me. He purchased it from a local pc shop and I wonder if they installed XP
Pro or if it came that way from Acer.

"Harcon" <harcon01@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Having formated to NTFS, and realised the hard way that the 9700
drivers only work if installed first from the System CD then from any
web drivers, I wanted to add back in the startup sound.

Sadly, I cannot find it on the system cd. Does it exist there? If so
can you advise or failing that, can you e-mail me the wav? Thanks

Yes it came with 2 partition which were FAT32, and a hidden System
Partiton. I got Pro on mine, but there is a cheaper version that has XP
home as well.

My friends also had Pro installed. I just can't image why Acer would choose
to install XP on a FAT32 partition. Every desktop or laptop that I have
seen in the last several years come partitioned NTFS. What was the reason
you made the conversion to NTFS.

"Harcon" <harcon01@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Yes it came with 2 partition which were FAT32, and a hidden System
Partiton. I got Pro on mine, but there is a cheaper version that has XP
home as well.

Hi, as far as I understand, and correct me if I'm wrong, the reason that
Acer uses Fat32 is because the restore discs will only work with that. If
you convert to NTFS then you'll not be able to do a restore...
ChrisC
"Jimbo" <spamnot@spamnot.com> wrote in message
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Sorry Chris but I will have to correct you because you are wrong.
Manufacturers supplied restore cd's restore the disk drive to the same state
they were when you first turned the machine, that includes the file system.
So if Acer uses Fat32 for it's XP partition that's what you get when you
restore, if they had used NTFS then that files system would be restored.
Converting the file system to NTFS would not prevent Harcon from doing a
system restore because during the restore process the file system is
replaced with whatever file system was in use when the restore cd's were
created and in his case he would be back with XP on a FAT32 partition.
To sum it up, restore cd's don't care what file system is on the drive your
restoring to or even if the disk doesn't have one in the case of a new
replacement. What you end up with after the restore is what you initially
got when you bought it.


"ChrisC" <cuke2u(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi, as far as I understand, and correct me if I'm wrong, the reason that
Acer uses Fat32 is because the restore discs will only work with that. If
you convert to NTFS then you'll not be able to do a restore...
ChrisC
"Jimbo" <spamnot@spamnot.com> wrote in message
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Hi jimbo, thanks for putting me right. I do know for a fact though that if
you remove the hidden partition from an Acer laptop then there might be
problems carrying out a restore....
ChrisC
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