ASK - What does Gateway Recovery Management do?

What does Gateway Recovery Management do?
Is this thing really do format the HD and copy the OS?
Will this be effective against virus on my p7811?

And 1 more thing, as this recovery do let us make a copy for backup, can it write on a FlashDisk instead DVD?

 

Yes, it will make a copy of your OS/Drivers/etc that are installed base on your system to allow you to do a recovery in case something bad happens.

If you reformat and use the discs yes it will get rid of a virus, but usually a good AV program like avira/nod32/etc will be able to clean it out for you.

As to the flash drive... i honestly have no idea. I dont know of anyone not using DVD's/CD's for the recovery process so i dont know.

 

So if my Notebook get infected with virus..
Is this mean that a click on gateway recovery manager wont get rid the virus?
I dont use anti-virus as my habit say if it get infected then re-install..

 

you really should run an AV program. There are alot of good free ones. Avira and Avast and Microsofts security programs all are really good (i use Avira personally)

But no the recovery wont fix it, you will have to fix it yourself or wipe your system and reinstall everything

 

Potential thread-jack...

I got infected!

Don't recall the particular worm, it was a few months ago. It caused the system to continuously reboot. I was able to recover using the recovery partition, then I ran a couple of anti-virus apps and scanned multiple time over the next few days. It should be gone, but I've not been using the computer for any financial purposes since then as I don't trust it. The recovery partition may be OK, but again, I don't trust it anymore.

However, as I have already used the recovery partition once, I now realize how useful it can be in a pinch, so I don't want to lose it.

I want to do a DoD-0 wipe. This will kill my recovery partition. Is there any way to recreate it? I have the original Gateway Vista disc and driver disc that I created on first boot-up when the system was new. Search isn't helping me and I don't see a sticky on this.

 

Isnt it after you full format your HDD and install the OS + drivers then the recovery management software would automatically create the recovery partition?

And guys correct me if I am wrong, it seems the gateway recovery management have this recovery partition so it could clean format the primary partition then install new OS from recovery partition, so any virus will automatically removed..
Am I right?