Made a copy of the recovery D drive using Acronis true Image

Hello, I used Acronis True Image to make a backup of the recovery drive of my M1330 and burned it on DVDs. I want to delete the recovery partition from my notebook but in the case I want to restore the computer to its factory setting, how do I use the Acronis Image to bring the recovery partition back and restore the computer to factory setting?

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

You would basically do the restore version of what you just did. It is only going to restore the d: partition however, so if that is not bootable it is not going to get you that far. You may, in other words, have to reinstall vista first. If you have a bigger hard drive, I would recommend doing an image of the entire PC. It would make it a lot easier to recover in the future.

 

So you mean I have to reinstall vista to make the d: partition bootable? I could do an entire image of my PC but that would take more DVDs. I heard that sometimes data are not perfectly copied to DVDs, especially for large files. So does that mean the image that I burn will have defects?

 

no, I am just saying that if the d partition is not bootable itself, restoring the image would not necessarily give you a usable point of recovery. It doesn't mean that you are a fool for doing the image. I just would recommend imaging the entire hdd if you are looking for a hassle free restore. You can always just make a backup of the D partition if you are looking to set that aside and make it available later.

 

Sorry, I'm not very good at this. How to check or make the image of the d: partition bootable?

 

Wow, +rep to wdro.
Any changes to the partition sizes on the notebook renders the recovery utility useless (such as my dual-boot config). It has always annoyed me that I pretty much had a useless 10GB partition that I couldn't do anything with but couldn't delete as it is still under warranty. Now I can image then wipe it and then use it as my temp directory for image/music/video editing software.