kes Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 I received my Acer pre-installed with Vista Business without a CD or DVD however.(According to Acer, there is a 'hidden partition' with the factory image of the Vista installation files somewhere on my portable).QUESTION - Can i use vLite without a Vista installation CD i.e. using the 'image' in the hidden partition of my portable?Thanks for any pointerskes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oskingen Posted September 13, 2008 Share Posted September 13, 2008 It is not recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathman20 Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 You might beable to make a workable ISO from that drive and then you can play with it but I wouldn't touch that drive in general. Who knows what could be screwed up if you touch it expecially if you need a reinstall. Those "extra partitions" on drives hold some information that is even critical to the operation of the OS. Seen a few HP's like that, which I though was the oddest thing but it insures as well its not easily going to be ripped off probably.More of an annoyance factor I say, you get a 160Gig drive and you already have 4-5Gig partition which basically is un-usable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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