New HP Laptop with Recovery partition

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 12 January 2007 16:51, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> But here's a weird part. ?It comes with a great feature, a recovery
> partition, so I don't even need DVD's to recover!!
> Except that the frickin' thing is 10GB in size. ?Now I realize that megs
> are cheap these days, but GIGs ain't <in the best drawl a Michigander can
> muster>

I use a program called  Acronis TrueImage which does much the same thing, 
except you can place the file anywhere, even on a disk on another computer 
over a network.   It copies any and all partitions that you want to save and 
places them in a normal file (with compression of your choice).

It has been a lifesaver in many instances...  especially with Windows 
machines.

1) Had a HD seemed ready to die last week.   Did a TI backup of it and just 
swapped it out and then restored.

2)  Wanted to upgrade a laptop HD (IBM) which didn't have a DVD writer on it.   
Made a TI backup to another machine over the network.  Swapped the drive and 
restored.  Magic!

Been worth it's weight in gold.