Vista - Create a Recovery Disc

Thank you Brink... much love.

Your welcome Bennys.

Yes - it works - Thanks!

Your welcome VMLENZA. I'm happy to hear that the DVD worked for you. Thank you for posting your confirmation.

Shawn

Hi, I've created the Recovery CD but I can't use the CD. I reboot with the CD but nothing came out. Pls advise! Thanks!

If you just copied the downloaded ISO file to the DVD, then it will not work. It will need to be burned to the DVD using a ISO burning program. There is a link provided for a free one to use in that tutorial.

Create a Recovery Disc

Hello again Brink,
Please excuse my lack of experience here, but I need to ask, My system is HP, Vista SP1 was preinstalled, ( OEM ) I have recovery disks, with the imfamous Recovery image partion on my HD, I thought that this disk would come in handy for repairs if I *&%@ something up ( I'm learning alot, so that means I'm playing with alot..much room for messing up! ) I downloaded the torrent for my x64 home premium and am going to burn it using ImageBurn, this Method one ISO will work for my HP?
Thanks again and much apologies...

Hi Blaydrnnnr,

Since your OEM Vista has SP1 preinstalled, I do not know for sure if the one created in Method One will work or not. I know Method Two will not since you only have a Vista recovery installation DVD/CD.

You can make one real quick and test the new DVD to see if boots into the System Recovery Options screen. It would be nice to have this confirmed or not.

Thank you,
Shawn

im about as smart as a box of rocks when it comes to computers, but i followed the tutorial on creating a boot up disk for vista....and by god i did it. Thanks to whom ever for keeping it simple and understanding that people like me need their hand held during most of this computer stuff...THANK YOU and im glad i found you guys. How bout shedding some light on this...my mom has vista too and i want to create a recovery(not a restore point)on her "D Drive"..but her "D Drive" is practically full already and there hasnt even been one recovery saved yet?..and no shes not saving anything on her "D drive". Like my "D DRive" theres already a recovery on hers with a lock next to it (PC Angel or something) which is some type of recovery. BUT my "D DRive" shows my most recent recovery back up with date AND that other recovery with a lock next to it. Whats that for? why two recovery things?and why cant i get my moms vista to save a recovery date...i dont know, its not a huge deal but i like trying to understand your world..lol

Your welcome 4lifemetalworks, and welcome to Vista Forums.

This is added by your OEM and is not part of Vista itself. The D: partition is the OEM Vista Recovery partition used to reinstall Vista back to factory defaults on your computer with. It usually is just a small partition with not much free space. I would not recommend trying to save or delete anything on it. The PC Angel is program used to protect the D: recovery partition.

Hope this helps,
Shawn