creating recovery disks w/o original media ??


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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64
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    creating recovery disks w/o original media ??


    Greetings -

    Recently purchased a Lenovo X220i laptop, which came with Win7
    Home Premium 64 installed, but no separate media.

    The laptop has Lenovo's Factory Recovery Disks utility, which I ran.
    It created one CD-ROM of just under 300MB, containing:
    BOOTMGR file (375KB)
    WINRE.WIM file (288.5MB)
    a 17MB BOOT folder.

    Given that the C:\Windows directory alone has 14GB in it, the CD contents
    strike me as being enough to perhaps boot the laptop, but not enough to
    recreate Windows on another disk if & when the factory hard drive goes south
    (or I decide to replace it with an SSD).

    Is there perhaps a Windows7 utility backup that I should be using to create
    a fully restorable Windows install package (excluding, of course, additional
    programs that I've installed from original media) and, if so, what is it?

    Insight welcome.

    Thanks kindly,

    - Richard
      My Computer


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    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #2
      My Computer


 

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