ACER Travelmate c300 HELP!!

[Joe C]

I recntly got an acer tablet pc and am very excited, but I am having a problem with the hard drive
It is FAT32 and the OS that is pre loaded takes up about 6gb and there is random files everywhere. I have used the supplied recovery disk but they are specific to ACER corp and will not let me do any partioning or change the file system type. They have used win98 boot up which cant change file types to NTFS. I just want a clean install of winxp tablet pc edition so I can partiton my drive, change the file type to NTFS and load all my acer extras w/ the recovery cds. Any suggestions ?

[Daryl G.]

It is Windows XP, so you can use the Convert tool to convert from FAT32 to
NTFS without the need to reload your system.

I'll post the how in a minute.

Daryl

Post by Joe C
I recntly got an acer tablet pc and am very excited, but I am having a

problem with the hard drive.

Post by Joe C
It is FAT32 and the OS that is pre loaded takes up about 6gb and there is

random files everywhere. I have used the supplied recovery disk but they are
specific to ACER corp and will not let me do any partioning or change the
file system type. They have used win98 boot up which cant change file types
to NTFS. I just want a clean install of winxp tablet pc edition so I can
partiton my drive, change the file type to NTFS and load all my acer extras
w/ the recovery cds. Any suggestions ?

[Daryl G.]

As promised.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/itpro/managing/convertfat.asp

Daryl

Post by Joe C
I recntly got an acer tablet pc and am very excited, but I am having a

problem with the hard drive.

Post by Joe C
It is FAT32 and the OS that is pre loaded takes up about 6gb and there is

random files everywhere. I have used the supplied recovery disk but they are
specific to ACER corp and will not let me do any partioning or change the
file system type. They have used win98 boot up which cant change file types
to NTFS. I just want a clean install of winxp tablet pc edition so I can
partiton my drive, change the file type to NTFS and load all my acer extras
w/ the recovery cds. Any suggestions ?

[terri]

Hi, Joe,

In order to partition, you'll need to use a third-party tool such as
Partition Magic or BootIt NG. You can do this without losing data, although
you should always make a backup or image first.

As for the clean install, you can't do it with the recovery CDs and the OS
isn't available any other way except for development through an MSDN
subscription.

You can try to Add-Remove Programs through the Control Panel to remove some
of the superfluous programs added by Acer.

In addition to Daryl's info on conversion, you might want to read this
article as to how to do it for the best cluster size -
http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm
--
Terri Stratton
Microsoft Windows MVP / Tablet PC
http://thetabletpc.net
Expert Zone - http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/default.asp

Post by Joe C
I recntly got an acer tablet pc and am very excited, but I am having a
problem with the hard drive.
It is FAT32 and the OS that is pre loaded takes up about 6gb and there is
random files everywhere. I have used the supplied recovery disk but they
are specific to ACER corp and will not let me do any partioning or change
the file system type. They have used win98 boot up which cant change file
types to NTFS. I just want a clean install of winxp tablet pc edition so I
can partiton my drive, change the file type to NTFS and load all my acer
extras w/ the recovery cds. Any suggestions ?

[Cheryl Wise]

What I did was boot from a regular Windows XP install disk (what I happened
to have laying around but any bootable OS cd that supports fat32 should
work) and used that to partition the drive. Once the drive was partitioned
I was able to use the Acer rcovery set to put the tablet OS pack to factory
configuration. Even though Acer did not include a clean install option at
least they don't insist on restoring their original partition size.

After using their restor disks you can convert to NTFS, reinstall drivers,
remove the Norton (only the shorcut is installed not the anti-virus
program).
--
Cheryl D. Wise
MS-MVP-FrontPage
http://mvp.wiserways.com

Post by Joe C
I recntly got an acer tablet pc and am very excited, but I am having a
problem with the hard drive.
It is FAT32 and the OS that is pre loaded takes up about 6gb and there is
random files everywhere. I have used the supplied recovery disk but they
are specific to ACER corp and will not let me do any partioning or change
the file system type. They have used win98 boot up which cant change file
types to NTFS. I just want a clean install of winxp tablet pc edition so I
can partiton my drive, change the file type to NTFS and load all my acer
extras w/ the recovery cds. Any suggestions ?

[Grant Robertson]

I recntly got an acer tablet pc and am very excited, but I am having a problem with the hard drive.
It is FAT32 and the OS that is pre loaded takes up about 6gb and there is random files everywhere. I have used the supplied recovery disk but they are specific to ACER corp and will not let me do any partioning or change the file system type. They have used win98 boot up which cant change file types to NTFS. I just want a clean

install of winxp tablet pc edition so I can partiton my drive, change the file type to NTFS and load all my acer extras w/ the recovery cds. Any suggestions ?
I have the same model. Here is what I did:

1) Back up all of your actual data files. (Don't worry about your OS)

2) Run the EZ restore disk to get the machine back to factory settings
and configuration.

3) Copy all of the following folders to a CD or external drive.
* BOOK
* CMPNENTS
* DOCS
* DOTNETFX
* I386
* SUPPORT
* VALUEADD

4) Partition and format your HDD as you choose.

5) Copy those files back to the C: partition.

6) Run the install from the i386 folder as you normally would. The
install will find the special Tablet PC files required and it will look
just like a normal install but those additional files will be installed.


If you want to put your 'Documents and Settings' folder on a different
partition than the C: partition I recommend you read the Microsoft
Knowledge Base article # Q236621 and do some research on the
'unattend.txt' file.

You will find that you have to install almost all of the programs that
came with the factory install to get any of the special buttons to work.

I'm guessing this same technique will work with most Tablet PC's.

[DrDDK]

I'm trying to find out if I can change from FAT32 to NTFS on my Ace
310, Can anyone help me on this? I haven't had any luck in findin
this information. If I can change, are there problems to anticipate

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[Jan Wagner]

I'm trying to find out if I can change from FAT32 to NTFS on my Acer
310, Can anyone help me on this? I haven't had any luck in finding
this information. If I can change, are there problems to anticipate?

Not just 310 specifically, but works in XP: Start, Run, cmd.exe,
then "convert C: /FS:NTFS".

It's one-way, can't go back to FAT32 (or well, perhaps with
PartitionMagic it was possible, vaguely IIRC)

Problems, not that I know of. NTFS is superior to FAT32, and can be
more secure. One issue if you're also running Linux and want to
access the NTFS partition from there: though NTFS write support
already exists, it is quite slow.

- Jan

[stiv]

"unknown" wrote:
Recently I purchased windows vist for my pc that runs by xp. when I try to
instal it I'm getting this message to change from FAT 32 to NTFS,

I'm trying to find out How can I change from FAT32 to NTFS on my windows Xp, Can anyone help me on this? Can some one help me?

I appreciate any info.

[Chris H]

This is a Windows XP question, not specifically related to Tablet PCs, but
go to your Start menu, open Help and Support then do a Search of "NTFS"
without the quotation marks. You should see an entry like "Convert a hard
disk or partition to NTFS format" and if you click on that you'll have a
guide on how to do it. I'm on Vista currently as I'm answering this, but
the wording should be pretty close by doing the NTFS search. Made sure you
read through all the information before you do anything! 8-)
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

Post by stiv
Recently I purchased windows vist for my pc that runs by xp. when I try to
instal it I'm getting this message to change from FAT 32 to NTFS,

I'm trying to find out How can I change from FAT32 to NTFS on my
windows Xp, Can anyone help me on this? Can some one help me?

I appreciate any info.

[unknown]

Hi
I have the same make/model laptop and lost the actual recovery CD's. I
crashed and I insatlled the nomn-tablet version of XP.. I have the X
authentication number for Tablet version but I can not recover my lapto
as Tablet version XP, and it is not available from Acer any more
I am willing to pay the costs, could you please send me a copy of you
installation discs

Thank you

Ne

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nabo

[ifeelok2 at hotmail]

Hi,
I have the same make/model laptop and lost the actual recovery CD's. It
crashed and I insatlled the nomn-tablet version of XP.. I have the XP
authentication number for Tablet version but I can not recover my laptop
as Tablet version XP, and it is not available from Acer any more.
I am willing to pay the costs, could you please send me a copy of your
installation discs?
Thank you
Ned
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nabo

nabo,
still need the cd's
which model of acer?
i have tm-c301.