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Create Recovery Partition & CD

Hey, im a 18 year old doing a computing course at college, and i would like to repair pcs etc, however, how would i go abour creating a partition with a backup of the pc, and a disc,

what i mean is like the parttitions hidden untill the disc is put in and it goes through the process on its own??

Thanks

Dan

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  • 4743hudsonj
    4743hudsonj Posts: 3,298 Forumite
    Dan:) wrote: »
    Hey, im a 18 year old doing a computing course at college, and i would like to repair pcs etc, however, how would i go abour creating a partition with a backup of the pc, and a disc,

    what i mean is like the parttitions hidden untill the disc is put in and it goes through the process on its own??

    Thanks

    Dan

    You mean like the partitions that come with prebuilt pc's? They have a partitioned drive that has all the recovery data?

    As far as im aware its impossible (to do the same thing) as this data is bespoke to the pc make/model. Its not the same as a windows recovery cd.

    I think i understand what you want but may i ask why you need a partition with data on it AND a cd?

    If you dont know how, you can partition drives in windows using diskmgmt

    Its quite simple, just make sure you name the drive.

    As for what you want, if you have the original manufacturers disk, that should suffice. What you want to do is wildly complicated if i've understood correctly.
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  • Dan:)_7
    Dan:)_7 Posts: 564 Forumite
    i wanted to do it for pcs i make, make a same sort of thing
  • 4743hudsonj
    4743hudsonj Posts: 3,298 Forumite
    you can try this

    I re-read your post and i think i read wrong, i believe that what you need.

    Are you savvy on partitioning drives?
    Have you built PC's before?
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