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Creating a Custom Recovery Partition
Hello,
I have recently installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on my Qosmio, installed all the drivers and necessary system utilities and programs that I wanted. Now, that took me a good few hours and quite a bit of effort. So, I thought of a way to prevent myself from having to do exactly the same thing in the future (I often have to completely wipe my laptop) I thought of creating a custom recovery partition. (Cause I'm lazy, aren't we all, more or less? )
So, just like on untouched laptops - you hit a key when it's booting, and you're given the option to restore it to factory condition (wipe the hard drive and restore the initial, first windows installation with all the unnecessary bloatware)
Would it be possible to do something like that? Create a system image, put it onto a hidden partition and leave it there until I need it, and then have an automated process that would restore wipe the current OS and restore the backup image. If so, how could I do that?
My current Windows installation is taking up about ~20GB total.