Vista - Create a Recovery Disc

Hello Sharmasing, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Sorry, but no. It can only be one per boot disc.

Shawn

I feel relieved now! I got the Macrium Reflect trial and did a backup and restore. I tried the free version but the Linux rescue CD had the same problem. The paid has a newer version and it reads the HD fine. Restored a 44 GB image from USB external in about 80 minutes. Not too bad. Unlike the Paragon trials this isn't a demo. It works for 30 days. The only section that's disabled until you register is the function to create a WinPE boot CD. It's worth $40 though to know I can depend on it. Also it has some network restore options that Paragon Personal doesn't have.

Ahhhhhhhhhh I'm breathing easier!!

Nice. I'm happy to hear that you found one that will work for you reliably.

When I tested my recovery DVD, I did not get the "System Recovery Options" dialog shown in the screen shot at the top of the tutorial.

Instead, I got a dialog with an "Install Now" button. There were two links at the lower left. One link said "What to know ...". The second said "Repair your computer".

To be safe, I stopped at this point and rebooted normally.

Is everything OK so far, or have I done something wrong (as usual)?
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Hello OldGrantonian,

No, you did not do anything wrong at all. You would just then select the "Repair your computer" link to then enter the "System Recovery Options" dialog.

Can't lose them all

Thanks for your help.

BTW: I have a couple of minor comments, which can probably be safely ignored

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Step 9:

9. Right click on the recdisc.exe file on the desktop, from step 3, and click on Copy.

This could possibly say "from step 6".

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From the tutorial about taking over:

METHOD TWO:
THE MANUAL WAY

OPTION ONE:
Through the Command Prompt

2. In the elevated command prompt, type takeown /f (full path of file) and press Enter.

I hate typing, so even before opening the command prompt, I had already decided that I would simply enter

c:
cd \Windows\System32

I had forgotten that's the default current directory when opening the console

So, I simply typed:

takeown /f recdisc.exe

This worked

Similarly at step 4:

icacls /grant recdisc.exe username:F

Successful

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Thanks again
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You're welcome. I have updated the tutorial to correct it.

Thank you,
Shawn

hi

i have just created the two recovery disc's using the toshiba disc creator.
Do i have this option (create a Recovery Disc) with this.

Or do i have to create another disc if i want to use the system recovery options
Also , does this tutorial work if you have service pack 2 installed

toshiba laptop L300/300D series 32bit sp2

Hello Carl,

Your OEM recovery disc is completely different than this one as per the NOTE box at the top of the tutorial.

The OEM disc is used to restore Vista back to factory condition, when this recovery disc is used to boot to the Systems Recovery Option screen that can only be used to repair Vista with. Yes, it will still work when you have SP2 installed.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

thanks shawn, i will give it a go, and try to create one.
just understanding it a bit more now, you would think you would have an option to repair your computer alredy included, like the disc creator.

It doe's not mention anything about this in the manual, and i thought i was fine having created the recovery disc's, in case i ever needed to reinstall.

If i would have not come accross this tutorial, i would have just left things as they are, and maybe if i had a problem in the fufture i would have done a reinstall when there was no need to do so, i could just pop the other cd in and try and do a repair instead, which is a lot better than reinstalling.......