Video: How to Make a Windows Vista Recovery Disk. Did you know it costs about $2. Hi I'm Dan Afonso of Afonso Consulting and Enfold IT and this is how to create a Windows Vista System Restore Disc. Now a system restore disc, a bit of a misnomer, used to have them on XP and what Vista does now is it has significantly better system restore built into the XP disc so what you're going to need is your disc and an installed version of Vista. Now the first part of this is of course you have to make the system restore disc and in this case it is just going to be a back up so we're going to go over here and we're going to go to start, all programs, maintenance and we are going to go to backup and restore center and it is going to bring up the thing and I'm going to go up to create complete PC backup and restore edge and what this does is it gets the registry, it gets all your files and it gets all your software. You are going to need this if your machine dies. Now this isn't for oh I lost a file I've got to get it back. This is if your machine gets hit by a bus and a pretty tall one so we're just going to back up the computer. This is a privileged instruction so we have to confirm it and make sure no virus is doing this in the background and it is going to go in and look for backup devices. It is not going to find a tape drive so one hard drive, I am going to put it there. You can also put it on a bunch of DVD's and CD's. I'm going to go next and tell it to, it has things on F: so I'm going to try to back it up so we are going to try to start this off. Now that the backup is done we are going to go boot up another machine in Windows Vista. In reality it would be the same machine you would be doing but I am going to do this for demonstration purposes on a virtual machine so I'm going to grab my Vista demo and I am going to start it. Now when you start from a Vista disc you have to hit the key on boot up in order for it to know to boot up the disc otherwise it is just going to boot up the operating system so it is going to load itself in and it is going to present you with the installation prompt so if we get to this point we have successfully booted off the DVD into an install and recover image so I am just going to o'kay the language selection. Now I get some options. How to make a Windows Vista boot / recovery cd from a running system without using an original CD. Windows Vista Recovery. Create a Recovery Disc” starts. I have Windows Vista Ultimate. I needed to be to make the recovery disk. While a Recovery Disk or a Recovery. Creating a Windows Vista Recovery CD. Now that you've created your Windows Recovery CD, test it to make sure that it. How To Make Recovery Disk For Windows Vista Sony VaioI'm going to go to repair your computer and it is going to start to transpose and I only have a single image of Vista on here so it's going to find that and select it and hit next. Now there are a few options here. Startup repair fixes all your old problems that would be fixed using F disc or Fix MBR and activating partitions, it is very handy. System Restore doesn't actually do a full restore. It simply takes your system back to system restore points which are created before you had major drivers or major applications, handy occasionally but of limited use here. Windows Complete PC Restore is what that backup we created earlier is for. In order to do this you just hook up the external hard disc or put in the last DVD that you did the back up to into the drive and fire it off and it will start going. Windows memory diagnostic tool is very handy if you don't know if your memory is broken and finally our friend the command prompt which has all the familiar commands but given that we have got our most useful stuff available here it is of limited use. So this is how you create a Windows Restore disc for Vista and I'm Dan Afonso. ![]() If you run into problems with your PC running Windows, a USB recovery drive can help you troubleshoot. Good luck and I hope you never need to use this.
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