Brand new laptop recovery disc help please.

xxdeebeexx

Hi DS1 has finally saved enough money to get a laptop. We have been offered the option of making a recovery disc which we are doing atm. However there was also an option of 'burning an image???' onto, I think, D disc, part of the computer I assume. Can someone help me out and let me know if I should do this too. The recovery disc is taking up 3dvd discs, so a backup on the hard drive would take a lot of memory.

TIA

Dx

Donnie

There is already an 'image' on the HDD, so don't worry about that. The DVD back up will be useful if there is a problem with the HDD access.

xxdeebeexx

Donnie wrote: »

There is already an 'image' on the HDD, so don't worry about that.

I guess that's where we're getting the data for the dvd's :rotfl:

Thanks

Dx

andy2004

I would recommend creating the DVD's, if the harddrive gets a fault and is replaced you can then use the backup dvd to restore it. Instead of paying out for the recovery disc from whatever manufacturer you got the laptop.
I recently had to fix a laptop which had just been to PC World repair department and had the harddrive replaced, and it wouldnt boot, there was a sticker on the front saying about the harddrive being bad, but it wouldnt load windows, something about a missing .dll file, but i couldnt replace the .dll file, computer wouldnt let me, even when booting from a bootable live cd. So i decided to use the recovery image, and then all i got was a black screen telling me it couldnt find hardware required. So i had to reinstall from Vista CD i had lying around. The backup image must have been copied from the bad drive and so was useless.
SO where it should have taken minutes took 3 hrs to fix, so PC world didnt do a good job at all. Sticker said Monday PCworld and it was wednesday when i was given it to fix.

macman

andy2004 wrote: »

I would recommend creating the DVD's, if the harddrive gets a fault and is replaced you can then use the backup dvd to restore it. Instead of paying out for the recovery disc from whatever manufacturer you got the laptop.
I recently had to fix a laptop which had just been to PC World repair department and had the harddrive replaced, and it wouldnt boot, there was a sticker on the front saying about the harddrive being bad, but it wouldnt load windows, something about a missing .dll file, but i couldnt replace the .dll file, computer wouldnt let me, even when booting from a bootable live cd. So i decided to use the recovery image, and then all i got was a black screen telling me it couldnt find hardware required. So i had to reinstall from Vista CD i had lying around. The backup image must have been copied from the bad drive and so was useless.
SO where it should have taken minutes took 3 hrs to fix, so PC world didnt do a good job at all. Sticker said Monday PCworld and it was wednesday when i was given it to fix.

No great surprise there surely?