Create a System Recovery Disc yourself!

Here's what I get when I make the disc through "Run"; create in Start/Search gets it.






Later Ted

Just tried the disk and it seems to work fine. Went as far as getting to the repair/recovery options.

Hello Mike,

Just so you know, this is a bootable recovery disk in case you can't boot up your computer, not a restore disk. It doesn't contain the OS, just tools to try to fix your installation. Cmd prompt and such. It can be put on a CD or DVD. Having it on your hard drive defeats the purpose.

Gary

It seems to work on a CD, that's what I used.


















Later Ted

I get the same through CP except in explorer when I check the disc I see this.



I used a CD also.

Gary

Haha. Guess what. After all this I can type 'system' into the search bar and Create a Recovery Disc is one of the options. Not the first, but its there. Makes me think even more that I just haven't given 7 enough down time to complete it's indexing. Think I'll leave it running tonight and see what it's like in the morning.

garysgold said:

Just tried the disk and it seems to work fine. Went as far as getting to the repair/recovery options.

Hello Mike,

Just so you know, this is a bootable recovery disk in case you can't boot up your computer, not a restore disk. It doesn't contain the OS, just tools to try to fix your installation. Cmd prompt and such. It can be put on a CD or DVD. Having it on your hard drive defeats the purpose.

Gary

Yeah, I screwed up the title, I put restore when I meant recovery.


Maybe Shawn will fix it. :)

SIW2 said:

Hi,

Maybe yours is corrupted Shawn - does it look like this?

This is the one I copied to my data partition - that was back in November, so it must be from 6801 build





Maybe it didn't work on 6801, but works on 7000?

Funny thing is , I didn't do anything with it - partly because you don't need it if you have the dvd, and partly because it hadn't worked when Shawn tried.

It will be useful for those with OEM preinstalls - they won't need to d/l the recovery iso from Neosmart like they do with Vista.

Strange so many people think it is in the 200mb system partition - it would be a very tight fit.

SIW2

It's good to know that it works in the 7000 build now. It's just that it did not work in the earlier builds that I have tried. :)

I like the fact that you do not need a ISO or installation disk to make it to.

I will need to do a tutorial on this one soon.