I've just bought a new Acer Laptop. The 80gb hard drive was partitiond in two plus there was a hidden 3gb with recovery software on it. I decided to use Partition Magic to unpartition it. I configured it to make drive D merge with drvie C and off it went. Everything seemed to be going well then after it had finished it rebooted into a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left hand corner. And that's it basically. The hard drive indicator also flashes but nothing else happens. The manual says to press Alt and F10 to start recovery. So I did. Sure enough up came Symantec's Ghost image and it began to copy the files from the hiddden partition on to drive C. After it had finished it rebooted straight into the black page and blinking cursor again.
So that's the harddrive screwed. I went off to find a dvd for the optical drive but Acer didn't supply any and the only Windows disk I have is an upgrade version of Windows XP. When I tried to install this it said it couldn't find any previous version of Windows on the hard drive and could I please stick one in.
So that's it, basically. I have to go out and buy an 8 year old operating system in order to start up my brand new computer. How much would it have cost Acer to supply a recovery disk dvd? And what exactly has Partition Magic done to so comprehensively trash my new laptop?

























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