Copy the Recovery partition

[Guest Charles W]

I have a Dell Dimension. The WinXP "Recovery Disk" for this computer is on

the same disk as the working WinXP but at a different partition.

 

If the Hard Disk crashes, I have no way to reinstall the WinXP back to a new

Hard Disk.

 

My question is

 

Is there a way to copy the "Recovery Disk" from its partition to an external

CD and make this CD bootable so that should anything happen to the existing

Hard Disk, I can reinstall the WinXP from the CD back to a new Hard Disk?

 

If possible, I would like to use whatever tools there are in the WinXP. I

don't want to have to buy some fancy third party programs.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Charles.

[Guest sgopus]

RE: Copy the Recovery partition

 

Regardless of your wants, your best bet is to use Acronis True Image and

Image the entire drive, recovery partition and system partition.

 

"Charles W" wrote:

> I have a Dell Dimension. The WinXP "Recovery Disk" for this computer is on

> the same disk as the working WinXP but at a different partition.

>

> If the Hard Disk crashes, I have no way to reinstall the WinXP back to a new

> Hard Disk.

>

> My question is

>

> Is there a way to copy the "Recovery Disk" from its partition to an external

> CD and make this CD bootable so that should anything happen to the existing

> Hard Disk, I can reinstall the WinXP from the CD back to a new Hard Disk?

>

> If possible, I would like to use whatever tools there are in the WinXP. I

> don't want to have to buy some fancy third party programs.

>

> Thanks in advance

>

> Charles.

[Guest Rob]

RE: Copy the Recovery partition

 

=?Utf-8?B?c2dvcHVz?= <sgopus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

news:F43A2FD1-6B1D-4342-BA51-8DBFD9E192D4@microsoft.com:

> Regardless of your wants, your best bet is to use Acronis True Image

> and Image the entire drive, recovery partition and system partition.

>

> "Charles W" wrote:

>

>> I have a Dell Dimension. The WinXP "Recovery Disk" for this computer

>> is on the same disk as the working WinXP but at a different

>> partition.

>>

>> If the Hard Disk crashes, I have no way to reinstall the WinXP back

>> to a new Hard Disk.

>>

>> My question is

>>

>> Is there a way to copy the "Recovery Disk" from its partition to an

>> external CD and make this CD bootable so that should anything happen

>> to the existing Hard Disk, I can reinstall the WinXP from the CD back

>> to a new Hard Disk?

>>

>> If possible, I would like to use whatever tools there are in the

>> WinXP. I don't want to have to buy some fancy third party programs.

>>

>> Thanks in advance

>>

>> Charles.

>

 

There is a free drive image package:

 

http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

[Guest Anteaus]

RE: Copy the Recovery partition

 

Agree. Recovery partitions do not always work, plus they may reinstall the

original promotional-junk along with the OS. An image that you can verify is

a better bet.

 

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"sgopus" wrote:

> Regardless of your wants, your best bet is to use Acronis True Image and

> Image the entire drive, recovery partition and system partition.

>

[Guest Bill Sharpe]

Re: Copy the Recovery partition

 

Charles W wrote:

> I have a Dell Dimension. The WinXP "Recovery Disk" for this computer is on

> the same disk as the working WinXP but at a different partition.

>

> If the Hard Disk crashes, I have no way to reinstall the WinXP back to a new

> Hard Disk.

>

> My question is

>

> Is there a way to copy the "Recovery Disk" from its partition to an external

> CD and make this CD bootable so that should anything happen to the existing

> Hard Disk, I can reinstall the WinXP from the CD back to a new Hard Disk?

>

> If possible, I would like to use whatever tools there are in the WinXP. I

> don't want to have to buy some fancy third party programs.

>

> Thanks in advance

>

> Charles.

I know HP allows you to create recovery disks and delete the recovery

partition. Does Dell have a similar arrangement? Check your documentation.

 

This puts your computer back into its factory-shipped configuration.

Generally that's not quite what you want. I'd agree with the Acronis

True Image suggestion, even if it costs a few bucks.

 

Bill

[Guest ju.c]

Re: Copy the Recovery partition

 

Yes. You need to unhide the 'DellRestore' partition. Then Windows will see it and you can copy it to

a DVD.

 

To make the DVD bootable requires some custom work.

 

I'd love to make the image for you, give me a week or two. I'm busy. Maybe sooner.

 

 

ju.c

 

 

"Charles W" <CharlesW@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:196ED31F-AE1D-4BD4-967C-B2EBB7EF17C2@microsoft.com...

> I have a Dell Dimension. The WinXP "Recovery Disk" for this computer is on

> the same disk as the working WinXP but at a different partition.

>

> If the Hard Disk crashes, I have no way to reinstall the WinXP back to a new

> Hard Disk.

>

> My question is

>

> Is there a way to copy the "Recovery Disk" from its partition to an external

> CD and make this CD bootable so that should anything happen to the existing

> Hard Disk, I can reinstall the WinXP from the CD back to a new Hard Disk?

>

> If possible, I would like to use whatever tools there are in the WinXP. I

> don't want to have to buy some fancy third party programs.

>

> Thanks in advance

>

> Charles.