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| Thread ID: 115537 | 2011-01-22 22:32:00 | Have you all made a Rescue Disk ? | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 1171841 | 2011-01-23 23:51:00 | The reason Microsoft offered this feature was because OEMs (Dell etc) usually provide recovery discs (restoring junk as well :yuck:) rather than proper Windows DVDs. Microsoft's recovery disc is effectively a standard Windows disc without the installation files. :) And that's why I don't buy brand name PCs with crappy recovery partitions. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1171842 | 2011-01-23 23:54:00 | I use the Windows 7 Image thing ... yeah I have (1) CD made for that but afaik you can also use your Windows 7 CD. Control Panel and under Backup I think allows you to make a bootable CD and then you can put the image file on a series of DVD or a Blue Ray disc maybe, HD or Network HD ... |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1171843 | 2011-01-23 23:57:00 | And that's why I don't buy brand name PCs with crappy recovery partitions. But eh .. you cannot escape that with many laptops right? |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1171844 | 2011-01-24 00:06:00 | But eh .. you cannot escape that with many laptops right? Doesn't matter, the first thing I do with new laptops is repartition and reformat :devil |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1171845 | 2011-01-24 00:08:00 | Doesn't matter, the first thing I do with new laptops is repartition and reformat :devil Then you need to buy Windows or have access to a CD/DVD disc provided the Product Key works. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1171846 | 2011-01-24 00:23:00 | Then you need to buy Windows or have access to a CD/DVD disc provided the Product Key works. Got that :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1171847 | 2011-01-24 00:25:00 | I have WDS.....no disks required! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1171848 | 2011-01-24 01:06:00 | en.wikipedia.org Just for the hell of it |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1171849 | 2011-01-24 01:18:00 | Hi Folks. I understood (correctly or otherwise) that the Recovery Disc or System Image echoed my operating state as it is when the RD is made, including all the thousands of updtes that MS has issued. Whereas the original DVD does not have these gems of knowledge and if I recover using the original DVD then I would have to spend hours/days downloading updates. For this reason I have from time to time made a fresh System Image........using Windows7. I'm open to advice and correction if this is not the way to go. |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 1171850 | 2011-01-24 01:30:00 | I understood (correctly or otherwise) that the Recovery Disc or System Image echoed my operating state as it is when the RD is made, The Recovery Disc, is only a CD that allows you to boot into a recovery mode and offers tools to repair the OS OR navigate and re-install the system image. The system image is a snapshot of the whole operating system, programs, data etc at the time it was made and needs to be kept on another storage device. Name brand PC's, like Dell, Compaq, have recovery partitions on the HDD. If the HDD fails, the recovery partition is gone as well - you then have to either have a complete W7 DVD and product key, or purchase recovery DVD's from the supplier. |
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