Hi, I have never had the request to do this before so I was wondering what may be the best way to do it. Its a XP thinkpad, I doing a clean reinstall, then I will make a image and somehow make a recovery partition that can be accessed on boot. Info appreciated!!
How to make a built in recovery image??
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If its a personal XP computer I have used Easeus todo backup to make the image and you can burn a rescue disk. I use Acronis Disk Director to make the partition. May not be that fancy but works.
Thanks! but now he wants a bootable recovery dvd image instead of a partition, you know which program does that best?
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If you had a large thumb drive could acronis clone to that?
yup, thats what I'd do but thats not what he wants.
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Sometimes what they want and what they get are 2 different things lol. He wants it all on dvd? Does he not realize those burned dvds could potentially corrupt or get warped etc?
Thats what he wants, its only 6 gb, 2 dvds but I'm having a hard time finding a imaging prgm that will even save images to bootable dvd's, ideas?
Nevermind, I found a old acronis true image 2010 boot cd that did the backup to dvd perfectly. I should add after creating the dvd image before rebooting you have to go into acronis tools and create a f11 recovery option or the dvd won't boot to recover.
Nevermind, I found a old acronis true image 2010 boot cd that did the backup to dvd perfectly. I should add after creating the dvd image before rebooting you have to go into acronis tools and create a f11 recovery option or the dvd won't boot to recover.
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Hes old school, wanted a dvd.
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Sounds like Acronis did everything you needed.
Good program, I've used it many time for the same purpose.
Remember , the F11 recovery option will over write original MBR.
Good program, I've used it many time for the same purpose.
Remember , the F11 recovery option will over write original MBR.
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Drive clone will do that, I am an OEM partner. It will create a factory restore partition and give you the option to make recovery DVD's
Drive clone will do that, I am an OEM partner. It will create a factory restore partition and give you the option to make recovery DVD's
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Are you sure i looked at the product it does not mention that feature?
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