Recovery Disk: One Of The New Feature In Vista Sp 1

[Guest Reimar]

One of the new features of Vista SP 1 is the ability to create a Recovery Disc. For my opinion something what should be a standard in an OS at higher standard!

Read the article about this new feature:

Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc

Published September 29th, 2007 by Long Zheng One of the new administrative tools Windows Vista Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc. At first, the name might fool you into thinking the type of discs system manufacturers provide to you when you purchase a new computer to restore your computer to a factory state, but this is not that. A more appropriate name would be “Windows repair disc”.

To be blunt, this tool creates merely a slimmed-down Windows installation disc. It takes a normal Windows installation disc image and strips out all the “installation” functionality leaving only the repair tools and common system files.

What a lot of people don’t know (or need to know) is that their Windows Vista DVDs are in fact running Windows PE, an extremely lightweight version of Windows that can be booted from removable media for the purpose of system maintenance. Up until now, creating a Windows PE image was not an easy task. This tool basically simplifies it down to just two clicks.

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If you boot this CD/DVD, it will look identical to your Windows installation disc. You will be asked to choose a language and even present you the “Install now” button. If you do decide to go on, you won’t get very far before an error stops you.

To enter the Windows Recovery Environment, click the “Repair your computer” link at the bottom of the welcome screen and select the Windows partition you wish to repair. After this, it will present you with a list of options including startup repair, system restore and command prompt. This is identical to the repair screen you would see in your installation disk. From here, you can even do a literally last-minute backup by sticking in a USB flash drive and copy documents across. Because it runs Windows, most USB drivers are available and it’ll work out of the box.

Because this is not an actual Windows install disk, it only takes up a few hundred MBs to fit on a CD, and you are free to make as many copies as you like and even share it with others. It’ll be even better if you can create a bootable USB version.

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[dsys]

I dont get it. What is the additional functionality that is added by SP1? How is this different from hitting F8 on boot?

[A_Traveller]

If I've understood, this function allows you to create a disk to rebuild your system, whereas F8 simple runs the standard process, but there again I could be wrong. Trying to fathom logic behind MS these days is more for those skilled with divination. By the by PE is a very useful tool and everyone should have a PE bootable disk in their rack.

Regards

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Edited October 2, 2007 by A_Traveller

[Guest Reimar]

If I've understood, this function allows you to create a disk to rebuild your system, whereas F8 simple runs the standard process, but there again I could be wrong. Trying to fathom logic behind MS these days is more for those skilled with divination. By the by PE is a very useful tool and everyone should have a PE bootable disk in their rack.

Regards

/edit typo//

It's a tool for to create a bootable Recovery CD/DVD and maybe even a Thumbdrive. Lastest is just a speculation which need to be tested!

But A_Traveller is right about the PE disk!

Anyway it's quite a shame that a so called high end OS didn't has the function to create a emergency recovery system disc! MS was need a looooong time to ad this function to their system, if it will come! Who really knows what MS is doing!

[dsys]

would have been nice if they had changed the menu options then - you're right who can understand MS these days.

[dsys]

OK I get it now: Instead of going through the usual crap { http://blogs.msdn.com/mszcool/archive/2006..._5F00_waik.aspx} to create a PE disk in vista you can now do it with two clicks.

sorry for being slow to much rice whisky last night