Formatting a New Hard Drive Acer Extensa 4620z

artimeus · 06-29-2009, 03:11 PM

Okay,

I have an Acer Extensa who's hard drive I fried a long time ago. Today I bought a new hard drive and loaded the Recovery Disks I have, but I'm getting the error "No Partition available"

I've read a bunch of threads about the ISO file, but couldnt find that file here http://www.acer.com/worldwide/support/download.htm on the Acer site and I do not have a floppy drive.

Does anyone know a good way to format this drive? I've never formatted a drive before, so I really have no clue what to do.

It's a Sata 320 GB drive from Seagate.

Thanks a bunch!

[edit]

Woops, forgot to say the OS on the Recovery Disk is Windows Vista Home Basic

Sorry

**simpswr** · 06-29-2009, 03:22 PM

If it is a Recovery Disc, it will be looking for files on the hard drive . . For a new drive you will need a Installation cd . . Most OEM's will furnish a installation cd if asked. You will need the drivers cd also if they will furnish that.

JeKyL · 06-29-2009, 04:10 PM

Hi,

A good partitioning program is GParted Live. The newest most stable release is gparted-live-0.4.5-2.iso which can be found at the following link for download:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=271779

The nice thing too is, GParted is free and open source software available under the terms of the GNU General Public License!

But like simpswr said, your going to have to obtain the Installation CD if you want to install the O/S. If you obtain that CD it should have a built in partition/formatting tool.

Check this link out: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

JeKyL

06-29-2009, 03:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
artimeus Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 7 OS: Windows XP ; Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit	Formatting a New Hard Drive Acer Extensa 4620z Okay, I have an Acer Extensa who's hard drive I fried a long time ago. Today I bought a new hard drive and loaded the Recovery Disks I have, but I'm getting the error "No Partition available" I've read a bunch of threads about the ISO file, but couldnt find that file here http://www.acer.com/worldwide/support/download.htm on the Acer site and I do not have a floppy drive. Does anyone know a good way to format this drive? I've never formatted a drive before, so I really have no clue what to do. It's a Sata 320 GB drive from Seagate. Thanks a bunch! [edit] Woops, forgot to say the OS on the Recovery Disk is Windows Vista Home Basic Sorry Last edited by artimeus; 06-29-2009 at 03:18 PM.

06-29-2009, 03:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 12,095 OS: XP, Vista, Win 7	Re: Formatting a New Hard Drive Acer Extensa 4620z If it is a Recovery Disc, it will be looking for files on the hard drive . . For a new drive you will need a Installation cd . . Most OEM's will furnish a installation cd if asked. You will need the drivers cd also if they will furnish that. __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help How to post a Screen Shot \| PC running slow?

06-29-2009, 04:10 PM	#3 (permalink)
JeKyL Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: New York / Virginia Posts: 209 OS: Vista SP2, Win7 RC, Ubuntu 9.04 & 9.10, XP SP3	Re: Formatting a New Hard Drive Acer Extensa 4620z Hi, A good partitioning program is GParted Live. The newest most stable release is gparted-live-0.4.5-2.iso which can be found at the following link for download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=271779 The nice thing too is, GParted is free and open source software available under the terms of the GNU General Public License! But like simpswr said, your going to have to obtain the Installation CD if you want to install the O/S. If you obtain that CD it should have a built in partition/formatting tool. Check this link out: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php JeKyL