Recovery CDs and Back-Up Disks...?
I purchased a new computer just this minute and the guy at the store told me to create recovery CDs as soon as I start the computer.
My new computer have an option to create back-up files and copy them to a compact disc or an external hard drive.
My interrogate is... Is creating recovery CDs and creating back-up disks the same point? Or are they different?
Also, I did not get any manual or CDs in the box... Is that mundane? Don't I get a Windows disc?
Answers:
To be technical, I would consider a recovery disk to be bootable. Having one bootable disk and several others next to the data on it is fine beside me as well.
Backup disks *could* indicate that you need to own an OS installed and booted before recovery could come to pass.
To be safe, I prefer to plan for a bare-metal recovery (that is, zilch installed on the drive, drive not formatted, just hardware connected).
Almost no OEM machines ship next to a real Windows compact disc. And quite a few don't ship near any recovery disk (although I've seen them available for purchase separately). It is possible that your electrical device is setup to burn a set of bootable recovery disks, but I cannot be sure from your question.
At the risk of sounding resembling I'm pushing a product, I'd like to point you to Acronis TrueImage (www.acronis.com) which can photograph drives and restore onto bare metal. Ghost can do alike thing. The supremacy of doing this is that you can install all of your drivers and applications, photo the drive and be back contained by business in minutes surrounded by the event of a disaster. I've used both and have settled on TrueImage for my personal use.
nope, nothing more, new "big-box" PC's own a program on them that allows you to burn your "system recovery" discs.
These discs would include your system drivers, utilities, pre-installed software and operating system.
It saves the businessman time and money by doing it this way, it also increases support revenue for society who dont burn them. Personally I think its a cop-out, and I other reccomend Dell because they are still bundling thier discs with PC's
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