system restore / recovery disks

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KRK

Hello,

I know (I think) what system restore points are. Happily I have never had to
use them.

I cannot seem to be able to create recovery disks (ie cd-roms) as I could on
my last system, (or DOS-Startup disks) for use in a complete system crash?

Can anyone help & advise pls ?

Thanks

K
 
Hi,

You're speaking of three different things.

System Restore points are housed on the volume(s) that they cover, they can
only be used by the SR software and you cannot use them to create Recovery
Disks. SR is meant to revert the system to a previous configuration when
there is a relatively new problem.

Recovery Disks are generally supplied by the system manufacturer, however
most don't do this as part of the purchase. Instead they create a recovery
volume that is accessed by an "F" key during boot up. Some manufacturers,
like HP, allow for the one-time creation of your own set of disks, otherwise
you have to specifically request them. Use of these disks returns a system
to factory state, and all data currently on the system is lost.

A startup disk was something used with Win9x systems that contained a bit of
boot code that allowed you to access the system from a DOS prompt. Modern
Windows systems do not have an underlying DOS layer that can be accessed by
a boot disk. The closest you can come is the use of the Recovery Console
which is accessed by booting the installation disk (retail version). This is
used to work on a system from the command line when you cannot access the
graphical interface to affect repairs.
 
whs said:
If you happen to have an HP, type REC into the Start/search field. That
should bring up something like "Recovery disk creation". That is the
wizard to do what you want to do. You'll need 2 DVD R's. It may also
work with other make PCs, but I never tried it there.
Click to expand...

Three DVDs were required for a DV9000 I did recently..
 
KRK said:
Hello,

I know (I think) what system restore points are. Happily I have never had
to use them.

I cannot seem to be able to create recovery disks (ie cd-roms) as I could
on my last system, (or DOS-Startup disks) for use in a complete system
crash?

Can anyone help & advise pls ?

Thanks

K
Click to expand...

Depending on the make, you may not be given the option to do this. Contact
the manufacturer and ask if they can supply the disks for your make and
model..
 
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