Acer and Sony disk partitioning

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Frazer Jolly Goodfellow

Factory-fresh Acer desktop and notebook PCs have the hard drive
partitoned into 2 x equal-sized FAT32 partitions: C: contains a
standard Windows XP setup and D: is empty. Sonys are similarly
partitioned, although NTFS formatted.

What is the logic behind dividing the disk space thus?

Why does Acer format as FAT32?


BTW: The Acers (& Sonys?) also have 1 x small FAT32 hidden recovery
partition, but that's a different discussion.
 
Frazer Jolly Goodfellow said:
Factory-fresh Acer desktop and notebook PCs have the hard drive
partitoned into 2 x equal-sized FAT32 partitions: C: contains a
standard Windows XP setup and D: is empty. Sonys are similarly
partitioned, although NTFS formatted.

What is the logic behind dividing the disk space thus?

Why does Acer format as FAT32?


BTW: The Acers (& Sonys?) also have 1 x small FAT32 hidden recovery
partition, but that's a different discussion.
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There is absolutely no logic behind it, but they've been doing it for
several years now as I have a friend with one partitioned the exact same
way.
 
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