Create a New Recovery Partition? Other Vista Discussions Discuss Create a New Recovery Partition? in the Windows Vista forums; Since my recovery partition has been corrupted for some very stupid and annoying reason, is there anyway I can make my own one from a Vista Installation disc? I'm ...

[Wiggles]

Since my recovery partition has been corrupted for some very stupid and annoying reason, is there anyway I can make my own one from a Vista Installation disc?

I'm guessing not but hey worth asking...

[felix8406]

You can create an image of your partition. That's one thong I recommend, especially to Win XP users since there's so many updates after the OS has been installed or even after XP2 has been installed. Once you installed Vista (or XP) and have installed all the updates and drivers and have everything running fine, creating and saving an image can speed up the re-installation process later on.

[Wiggles]

Is there an article on how to do it or can you tell me please?
Many Thanks

[Snuffy]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pro...ls/backup.mspx

If your current install is working AOK. then make the restore img using backup.
you can restore from it any time...

But I'm interested in how did the RESTORE IMG get corrupted... it is suppost to be FULLY protected and non-writable...

I know that XP you simply had to copy dir I386 directly from the CD to x:\restore

[felix8406]

You may want to see this website: http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilit...andimage.shtml

If you are making an image, you should first run the Disk Ceanup and Defrag utilities.

[Snuffy]

Originally Posted by Wiggles

Since my recovery partition has been corrupted for some very stupid and annoying reason, is there anyway I can make my own one from a Vista Installation disc?

I'm guessing not but hey worth asking...

Yes, you can copy the DVD to the partition. It really is FASTER that way than access thru the DVD.

You might want read this, and try the compression so as to make the files smaller... it also give how to install from that compression

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../aa905070.aspx

[felix8406]

Originally Posted by Snuffy

[url]But I'm interested in how did the RESTORE IMG get corrupted... it is suppost to be FULLY protected and non-writable...

I know that XP you simply had to copy dir I386 directly from the CD to x:\restore

That's a good question Snuffy. If the image is placed in a separate partition, it's almost impossible to damage it, unless the HD takes a dive. However, I know that Dell has or had the file to initiate a recovery in the 'C' drive. If one formatted the HD or reinstall the OS (clean install), it'll delete the file, making it almost impossible to do a recovery. I contacted Dell customer support a while back asking them if I could get a CD or DVD-Rom image, but they didn't have one. Instead I received a Win XP CD, a software CD and a driver CD. My eMachine did come with a CD that has the executable files (for recovery), although the image was installed in a separate partition.

[Wiggles]

Your guess is as good as mine, I don't know how it got corrupted but anyway...could I ring Acer to see whether they could restore the partition?

If there is no way of recovering it, it doesn't matter too much as I have both XP and Vista Disks but I just thought if there was a way of getting back the partition then might as well try.

[felix8406]

Yes, you should try contacting Acer...check their support section in their website. Although you have the OS DVD, the partition will have other applications as well, programs, drivers, etc. If you can get Acer to somehow make the partition active again, then I suggest you do the following:

I'm assuming that you bought a PC with Win XP and the upgrade option to Vista.

1. Use the recovery partition and install the OS, which I assume it's Win XP. If it's Win XP, upgrade to Windows Vista.
2. Uninstall any programs or application that you don't need or want, but that will be installed by the recovery partition. Most PC are loaded with extras, like AOL application, 30 or 90-days anti virus program, limited word processing application, etc. If you don't need them, now it's a good time to get rid of them.
3. Install all updates, including drivers.
3. Run Disk Cleanup and Defrag utilities then turn off the PC, wait a few minutes and restart.
4. If everything's running A-OK, create a DVD image of your HD and save it. Next time if something goes wrong, use that image to recover your system.

I don't suggest you install anti virus, malware, registry cleaner software, etc. before making the image. Those type of applications that require constant updates might become unstable when installed from an image. Create an image first, then install those applications.

[Wiggles]

Originally Posted by felix8406

I'm assuming that you bought a PC with Win XP and the upgrade option to Vista.

Thanks for the help, just to let you know though that only Vista came preinstalled.