Ghost 10/ True Image 9 and the hidden Dell restore Partition

Hi,

does anyone know if the current versions of backup software like TrueImage 9.0 and Ghost 10 can see and backup the hidden Dell restore Partition?

I want to do do 1 back-up of the restore partition onto a couple of dvd's, and 1 backup of all 50Gb on my hard drive seperately...

Or am I going about this the wrong way? I definitely don't want to delete the restore partition even if it's backed up as there's always the risk that my dvd drive will fail just when I want to use it!

thanks

Philip

 

Well it depends on what you are going to do after it is backed-up...were you going to do a fresh install? If so the restore partition will not work.

If you are talking about just exporting that partition and then overriding it with say Partition Magic...that might work.

As for backing it up I don't know what you could use. I am sure you could use Ghost, but do you really want to pay for the software to get it off and get back that little bit of extra space. You could always use and external drive.

Just a thought.

 

You can burn a copy of the restore partition using Ghost. I haven't done this but there is a website that has detailed information about it : http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/index.htm

If you edit/create partitions or do a clean install, the restore partition is no longer valid so you might as well delete it and gain the space back. The disk should work whether the partition is there or not.

SG

 

I have done restoration DVD using Ghost at my friend's PC. She doesn't know much about computers so she downloads some viruses and other stuff I was tired of installing fresh new Windows so I created the restoration DVD with DVD burner she has Now if there is something wrong with windows she just copy important files to other partition and insert restoration DVD, choose some options and after about 10 minutes she has fresh new Windows with all the drivers and software

 

Hi, can you tell us how to do that - creating a dvd of the restore partition...

thanks

Philip

 

Like SouthernGirl states above in her reply; go to this link and follow the guide on how to backup the restore partition.

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/index.htm

 

Hi everybody, I am new in this forum.

So let me get this right, if you burn only the restore partition on your DVD, will it work on a freshly installed Windows XP when it runs to trouble?

Thanx
Eneid

 

Hey! the link's broken at the crucial stage!

I've got my bootable DVD with all necessary files aboard to manually restore the partition, so what next?