using usb as a recovery disk

I have been following the instructions i found on this site but when i type "cd c:\recovery" I get the message the system cannot find the path specified.

Thanks

Welcome to the forum it's two cmds

C:
Cd\recovery

Thank you both for your replies.

Perhaps I need to tell the whole story. My current hard disk has a fault and I need to change it. I have already purchased a new disk and am going to try and install it following the instructions given in Microsoft Community (answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/how-to-transfer-windows-7-to-a-new-hard-drive/d36881a5-1a9d-41ce-aa5f-419a50cd8d83?auth=1).

I have backed up my current system image to an external hard drive and only need a recovery disk. Since the DVD drive on my laptop is no longer working I am trying to use a USB instead. I have found several web pages giving me instructions how I can do that, but all of them instruct me to find a file (C:Recovery486aab42-cf02-11de-be22-c44fb1debe9dwinre.wim) on C: recovery. I am unable to find any folder on my computer named "recovery". I have unchecked "hide protected system files".

Thank you for any advice.

Thanks Thrash

I have downloaded M Reflec. But when I try to clone my hard disk I get this message:
macrium reflect read failed - 22 - invalid argument - 32.

I have tried to get help with this and read several articles, but unfortunately my tech knowhow is, well, beginners. Any help or suggestions you can offer, much appreciated.

Thanks

alan

Use Macrium to make an image backup, not a clone backup. A clone backup will likely contain any errors that currently exist on the disk.

And be sure to make an emergency recovery disk to a flash drive. And make sure that the USB drivers are installed to the recovery disk. (I'm sure that they will be, since your recovery disk will be a flash drive; but I'd double-check just to make sure.)

Once you have done both of those, you should be able to successfully install the new drive, boot from the flash drive into Macrium, and do a restore of your Macrium image.

Thank you both for your advice.

In the end I was able to make a DVD copy of the reflect recovery disk, and an image backup to an external hard disk. (At the same time I made a windows 7 recovery disk to a DVD and a system image to another external hard)

After installing my new internal hard, I was unable to boot the computer using the reflect recovery disk and so used the windows 7 recovery disk and system image.

I won't say it went smoothly, but it's certainly seems to have done the job.

Any ideas why the reflect recovery disk was not seen by my computer, (dell inspirion 5100)?

Anyway, thank you very much for your time and assistance.

alan