On Mon, March 2, 2009 11:14, John Carter wrote: > I don't know if Acer have followed same strategy as the Asus 901 > EEE... > > > On the 901 it has 20Gb SSD, but as far as I can determine that is > split into two logically, if not physically, distinct drives. > > A faster 4Gb partition for the "root" / partition (ASUS-PHISON SSD > SOQ2882269) and and a 20gb (ASUS-PHISON SSD > SOQ2882288) slower /home partition. > > > ie. The partition is not hidden and not a factory image in the sense that > you can "reset" to factory defaults. To recover the "factory" image on my > Asus, I have to insert CD into desktop, pull off iso, use > unetbootin-eee-linux to load it onto USB drive, boot from USB drive. (I > haven't tried reverting yet, but I believe thats the general idea.)
On the Aspire One you press Shift-F10 (I think) at boot time and this causes the hidden partition to boot. The hidden partition has a rudimentary installation of XP which immediately runs the "Restore to factory state" program. I guess its function is identical to an external restore disk, where you would boot that and its only purpose would be to wipe and reinstall a fresh image. This is not a bad idea, because the Aspire One does not have an optical drive, but, if the entire disk gets corrupted it means you're screwed because Acer do not provide a DVD or CD for this purpose (and yes, I have asked. And yes, you can get one if you are in the US, but not from Acer in Oceania). Best wishes, Andrew
