The simple answer is no, not on its own. You want to create an image of your drive. For this, you'll need an external drive at least as big as your Acer drive. On my Windows 10 machine, this option is under Control Panel > System & Security > Back up and Restore (Windows 7). The wizard is accessed from the "Create a system image" button on the left. If I recall correctly, Windows 8 is similar. Once the image is created you can reload the image painlessly from your recovery disk no matter what you did to the drive. Just connect both recovery drive and system image drive to the computer and boot into the recovery drive. Select restore from image and follow the on screen instructions.
Having said that... I would like to caution you against doing that. If you just want to play around with Linux and see what it has to offer, the safest option is to just use a live disk. The Ubuntu install disk doubles as a live disk and would probably work best on your two-in-one screen. There is nothing done to your computer when you use a live disk so it is safe. If that isn't sufficient, then you can use a virtual machine, such as Virtual Box. Restoring your original setup from there is a simple matter of removing the virtual machine. If that still is not sufficient for your purposes, then you might want to dual boot Windows and Linux. In that case, restoring is just as simple as uninstalling Linux and extending your Windows partition again.
