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    Recovery CD

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by anoopcosmos, Feb 22, 2008.

  1. anoopcosmos

    anoopcosmos Newbie

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    Dear All,

    I have got my XPS M1530 last week.
    There is two parttion in hard disk one is main and other partition is for recovery.
    How to create Recovery CD from that Hard disk partition?
    Appreciate suggestions from experts.

    Regards.

    Anoop
     
    anoopcosmos, Feb 22, 2008
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  2. supermr_tamu

    supermr_tamu Notebook Enthusiast

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    you may try Acronis True Image to make a image of your whole hard disk. I did this several days ago and would recommend to save the image on a USB external hard drive. this will be much faster and more reliable than burning them on DVD. Also make a bootable CD using Acronis software so you can use it to boot in case you need to reinstall. It took ~10g space.
    This software will expire after 15-day use, but you can make backup within 15-day and the recovery function does not expire after 15-day.

    You can try to backup only recovery partition D:, I never tried this, this may work and can save you some space.

    good luck
     
    supermr_tamu, Feb 22, 2008
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  3. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    There is also a recovery partition already on the computer put there by dell.
     
    nizzy1115, Feb 22, 2008
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  4. supermr_tamu

    supermr_tamu Notebook Enthusiast

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    i think his question is how to backup this recovery partition.
     
    supermr_tamu, Feb 22, 2008
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  5. jack53

    jack53 Dell XPS 9360 i7 Lover!

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    Why do that when they sent you a recovery CD? I deleted recovery partition to gain more space.
     
    jack53, Feb 22, 2008
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  6. nizzy1115

    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    Same here, but having an image is handy. Imagine having your with windows installed, all your programs installed and settings the way you like, along with most of the windows updates all in 10-15 minutes.
     
    nizzy1115, Feb 22, 2008
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