Samsung Recovery Solutions

I just ordered a Samsung NC10 netbook. It has not yet arrived. I am reading the owners manual and am confused about the Samsung Recovery Solution. I would appreciate anyone who is familiar with this application to respond to a few questions.

1 - After the initial startup the disc partition tool runs. I have no idea how big to make the D drive partition. Are the backed up images compressed or saved at original size?

2 - Instructions in the manual appear to indicate that backups may only be made to the D partition or to an external DVD writer. Can they also be saved to an external HD? Seems kind of dumb to recognize an external DVD burner but not an external HD.

3 - Do subsequent backups automatically overwrite previous backups or can multiple backups be created? What about the Initial Status Backup? Is that always saved or will it be overwritten by subsequent backups?

4 - Finally, is this program any good or should I rely on a program like Storage Craft's Shadowprotect or Acronis True Image?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

I used this tool on an R50, so it should apply to all samsung products.

1. 5-10gb should be enough, since the recovery image is in compressed form.

2. There is nothing dumb about this requirement! The recovery must have access where BIOS can recognise. If your system takes a hit, you think you can recover from an external via USB? Remember, we are talking about "recovering" here.

3. I dont use the backup option. It would require a larger partition than I would want to.

4. This program is good, as with any others that come with comps delivery - To use and create recovery CDS and recovery partition. Normal day-to-day, I use Windows backup utilities.

cheers ...

 

Thanks for that information.

I am using Shadowprotect by Storagecraft on my other three computers as an image restoration program. It starts from a boot disk and can restore an image from an external USB drive. I can save multiple HD images and usually have 5 or 6 backed up. That program is 100% reliable. It is my understanding that subsequent Samsung images will overwrite previously saved images. That is not good! I'm undecided if I want to pay another $80for a license to install Shadowprotect on my Samsung NC10 or to use the free Samsung Recovery Solution program.

 

I haven't had my NC10 long enough to have to do a recovery of the system, but I have used the Samsung back-up program. At next back-up, I'd expect it to do an incremental back up, as one can, using Acronis; this just backs up/ overwrites changed items that are different from last back-up i.e Windows updates

 

Did anyone figure out if the Samsung Recovery Solution 3 actually does incremental backups or just creates a whole new backups for data backups?

 

1 - At the initial startup, you will have the option to set up the size of c: (for XP operating system) and d: (for data). I think the minimum c: size is 25GB. The hidden paritition size for your initial back up is automatically size at 6GB. For reference my set up for c: is 40GB and d: is 100GB. The backed up images I believe are compressed.

2 - I have not tried to to backup to an external HD but I don't see why not.

3 - Subsequent backups do overwrite previous backups when you save them in your D:. The Initial backup located in your hidden partition, however, won't be touched and will always be available when you try to recover.

4 - If your needs are not complex the Samsung Recovery is sufficient.

 

Hi.

I have made backups to my external usb hdd and restored from it and it works fine.

Also you can only have 1 backup per partition, in a directory called "SamsungRecovery"

John.