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Recovery Partition / Disc - Win 8
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We have his and hers Dell XPS-12 Ultrabooks. They were supplied with Windows 8 but I have since downloaded the Windows Update to 8.1 on both.
If I create a backup of the Recovery Partition to a USB Flash Drive now, will that reflect the change to 8.1 or does the Recovery Partition remain just as Dell created it with 8.0?
If I create a backup of the Recovery Partition to a USB Flash Drive now, will that reflect the change to 8.1 or does the Recovery Partition remain just as Dell created it with 8.0?
... Dave
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Recovery Partition remain just as Dell
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Good idea to use this ? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/what-happened-to-backup-restore
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backup the lot to an external hard disk (safer and bigger than flash drives) as a disk image (not clone), and create a macrium recovery disc, then you can recover both systems to the state they are now.
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx!!
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backup the lot to an external hard disk (safer and bigger than flash drives) as a disk image (not clone), and create a macrium recovery disc, then you can recover both systems to the state they are now.
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
Although using the Windows utility, not macrium, I do regularly backup an entire disk image to my many external hard drives (belt and braces man here), but as far as I can see W8 only offers a Flash Drive as a backup source (ETA I meant destination) for the Recovery Partition. I was creating one this afternoon and it got me thinking, hence my OP.
... DaveHappily retired and enjoying my 14th year of leisureI am cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.Bring me sunshine in your smile0 -
backup source? or destination
macrium is more flexible, you can do individual partitions (eg recovery) or the whole thing!!
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backup source? or destination
macrium is more flexible, you can do individual partitions (eg recovery) or the whole thing
Yes. a typo from a tired brain, I did mean 'destination'. I may well try Macrium, it looks rather like Norton Ghost which I used to use with XP in that it gives access to individual files from an image.... DaveHappily retired and enjoying my 14th year of leisureI am cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.Bring me sunshine in your smile0 -
I've seen posts on other Forums which suggest people have had problems using the Windows-created Recovery Drive if the Recovery Partition is damaged or deleted.
I've not tried this scenario myself, but I would certainly consider using Macrium as suggested, in addition to the Windows version.0
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