Recovery partitions - can i?

muddyl

I know its fairly easy to make a recovery partition from a windows disk.
But how about making a disk from your recovery partition? I know its possible, but anyone know how to do it?

muddyl

I'll take it as no one know's this then.

JJ_Egan

muddyl wrote: »

I'll take it as no one know's this then.

You may need to hang around longer .

I would use the Google search engine to find the route to convert the factory partition to a disc . It is possible but not something i have ever needed .

jje

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how do you make a recovery partition from a windows disc?

Myser

You'll probably find that the recovery partition is fairly large and may need to be spanned over a number of discs.

Some laptop manufacturers provide a utility which periodically prompts you to make backup discs.

I think there is also a feature in Windows to do this too.

jayme1

is there a specific reason why you would want to make a recovery disc from the recovery partition, as it will be full of the manufacturers bloatware.

I would personally go to the manufacturers website and download all the drivers (and utilities) for your specific computer, then keep them safe on a flash drive/DVD
then use the official windows iso burnt to a DVD (windows 7 iso here) to restore your computer using the product key on the licence sticker stuck to the computer.

two advantages to this,
1. you get a nice clean install of windows, zero manufacturers crapware
2. you don't need to keep the recovey partition upon reinstallation which gives you more gigabytes

esuhl

I've never seen the benefit in using a recovery partition (assuming you have the OS installer DVD). As jayme1 suggests, I've always found it easier to just download any drivers and other software installers to a non-boot partition.

Then, should a re-installation be required, you can format the boot partition, re-install Windows onto it from DVD, install the drivers and software, and you end up with a nice clean system with no wasted disk space due to a recovery partition.

ChiefGrasscutter

esuhl wrote: »

I've never seen the benefit in using a recovery partition (assuming you have the OS installer DVD).

If the PC manufacturer provides a recovery partition then generally they won't provide any re-installations discs/drivers/etc

Two uses for using it to reset the PC back to day one.
1. If you want to sell the PC - totally clean

2.I've used it on my Dell for getting rid of the accumulated programs & patches & fixes acquired over 5 years and going back to square one and re-installing only those things that I need now - PC worked much faster after doing it.
Actually doing the reset took a matter of a minute or less - a lot more obviously to do the re- installation of my software.

esuhl

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

If the PC manufacturer provides a recovery partition then generally they won't provide any re-installations discs/drivers/etc

I realise that, which is why I qualified my statement with "assuming you have the OS installer DVD". I made no comment on the situation where one did not have the installation DVD.

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

Two uses for using it to reset the PC back to day one.
1. If you want to sell the PC - totally clean

2.I've used it on my Dell for getting rid of the accumulated programs & patches & fixes acquired over 5 years and going back to square one and re-installing only those things that I need now - PC worked much faster after doing it.
Actually doing the reset took a matter of a minute or less - a lot more obviously to do the re- installation of my software.

I don't see how having a recovery partition would help in either of those cases. It would still be better to install from the DVD so you aren't wasting disk space with a recovery partition. Not only that, but I imagine that the installation DVD would be more likely to install the OS cleanly without any bloatware; the people I know who have used recovery partitions have found that vendor-specific bloatware and adware is usually pre-installed after recovery.