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Using a custom image on recovery partition.
Hello, I look after a older relatives netbook, when they clutter the machine to a snails pace I simply do a factory reset, for the first couple of times it wasn't too much effort, but the last attempt took a few days of windows updates to be "ship shape" again.
I was wondering could I update the factory reset on the recovery partition (on the internal HDD) with a image of windows that is totally up to date (when the image was taken)
I have 2 partitions in windows, (one HDD) but only care about backing up the O/S part (C:\)
Looking a disk management I have 4 partitions, the two already mentioned a 8.5GB Recovery partition and a 100MB Active recovery partition.
Is it as simple as backing up via windows action centre, include a system image, Formatting the 8.5GB partition, expanding it to fit the backup (about 20GB when I checked) and writing the backup to the expanded recovery part.
I've read a few things but am unsure. I can't seem to fathom how to write to the recovery or even if I'm thinking the right way.
Please don't think I know what I'm doing.