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Make Your Own Windows Vista Recovery Disk |
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Written by nizzy1115
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
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Some manufacturers fail to give you an actual Windows DVD with the purchase of your new computer. Dell and Levono usually do, but the rest fail to realize the importance of giving their customers one. Instead, they take a chunk of your hard drive away from you to dump a "recovery partition." While this is great to have, I suppose, it is not that wonderful.
Lets say, for example, you have just a minor windows glitch that is preventing your computer from booting proper. It is likely just a faulty master boot record, and booting to the Windows DVD and running the windows repair will fix this problem without making you lose all of your personal data and installed programs. The problem lies when you don't have that disk to boot from. Of course, you could borrow a disk from a friend you know, or download a disk from the internet in a not so legal way. Or, you can download the legal Windows Vista Recovery Disk. Once you download it, you will need to burn it to a CD. Since it is an .iso file, you will need the proper software to do so. luckily I wrote an article before about a free .iso burning program for Vista. You can check that out here. Now that you have your recovery disk burned, you are all set next time you need to run a repair on your Windows installation without reinstalling the entire operating system.
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