Windows Vista Recovery Disk

[porabai]

Hello All,

Good Morning!

I bought an ACER laptop from bestbuy and in the package I am surprised there is no recovery disk. Is there any way I can create a recovery disk(Its original Windows Vista preinstalled on my computer) so that incase the computer crashes I can have the O/s reloaded.
My computer is uptodate as far as Windows Vista updates are concerned.
Thanks for your help in advance
Sean

 

[Sleepsalot]

You should contact acer to see if they have any steps to create one. But most manufactures put a partion on the hard drive for recovery. When the machine boots you may see an option for this feature.

Wayne

Life is a big Roleplaying adventure.

 

[aich69]

I have just bought an ACER laptop with Vista Home Premium on it... when I set it up it offered me the chance to burn a recovery DVD...it even had two blank DVD's ready for the job. Did yours do the same?
As 'sleepsalot' says, manufacturers quite often put a recovery partition on the disk... if I look at my disk in disk management (right-click 'my computer' - manage - disk management) I can see an un-named partition... this is the recovery partition, take a look to see if you have same..(my model is Aspire 5633).

If you haven't and you weren't offered the initial back-up to DVD option then best practise would be to use something like O&O's Disk Image to make a backup image you can use to recover your entire disk if it goes badly wrong at a later date. With O&O you can do an initial image and then incremental ones thereafter...quite a handy feature... IMHO at any rate.

As far as I can remember (as I have since stripped of all the 'extra' software that was pre-loaded) ACER use NTI software to do the backup image....take a look in the program list to see if it is in there.

Cpt. Red Bull

 

[linney]

You may have to create the Recovery CD yourself from software already on your machine. Have a look at any supplied manual or contact the Acer Web Site a see what mentioned for your machine or generally. See the discussion in this link too.


Recovery CD with Vista

http://forum.circuitcity.com/thread.jspa?threadID=6060&start=0&tstart=0

 

[porabai]

Thank you all for the help. I will check it back @ home later in the evening and update you. I am sure I have an option for recovery tool on the desktop as part of Acer other tools.

Thank you all once again for the help.

 

[contactme]

Hi Porabai,
Were you able to find the exact steps to create the recovery disk.

I have just purchased AS5570-4438, with windows Vista home premium. I haven't yet started it and believe it will give me an option to create the recovery disk but it would be helpful if I know the steps in case it doesn't give tyhe option or somehow I miss those steps.

Thanks a lot.