best way to make Netbook recovery disk

mutley74

Just bought a HP 210 Netbook.

No instructions on how to make a recovery disk.
Do i need to make this if so how/where?

What is best way to make this? On USB stick or on my HD portable drive in a separate folder?

stilltheone

Is there not an option to create .iso images with HP Recovery Manager? You can put them on a USB drive or leave them on the Internal HDD. Then you can burn the images to disc at a later stage.

I don't know if it's possible, but it certainly was on on MSI.

HP state that you should have an external DVD drive, but you obviously don't have one. Page 76 onwards

coolagarry

I think that HP also say that the recovery disc can only be done once so if yours is second hand (as mine was) you will have a problem. Apparently there is a workaround in that you can get it to do a clean install using the Recovery Manager on the hard drive and then it has no memory of a recovery disc having been made.

mutley74

thanks for replies. \so DAK know how to make a recvery disc on a HP netbook?

dixiebb

odd. my hp mini 210 did indeed give me the option to make one.

Linbox

Install macrum reflect free backup to a portable usb harddrive or big usb stick.
Macrum is also available in Hirens boot disk

mutley74

dixiebb wrote: »

odd. my hp mini 210 did indeed give me the option to make one.

do you remember how you did it? were you given a prompt? i get back up prompts for the main drive but not for recovery discs.

stilltheone

mutley74 wrote: »

do you remember how you did it? were you given a prompt? i get back up prompts for the main drive but not for recovery discs.

Did you look at the PDF?

mutley74

stilltheone wrote: »

Did you look at the PDF?

yeah it says use the optical dvd drive, same as you found out!

Linbox

In the maintenance folder on the start menu

stilltheone

mutley74 wrote: »

yeah it says use the optical dvd drive, same as you found out!

Are you sure that it doesn't give you the option to write an iso image?