lesser-equity

Computer Juice Magazine
Go Back   Computer Juice > Computer Software > General Software Chat



Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 3rd Nov 2008, 13:15
Member Group
 
Posts: 110
Default New Computer / No Disk of course

If you purchase a computer and the software is alreay on there iis there a way to manually burn a back up of the OS?

  #2  
Old 3rd Nov 2008, 13:21
Administrator Group
 
Skill Level: Advanced
Posts: 9,562
Default New Computer / No Disk of course

You can get software the will clone your harddrive to a zip type file.

That said any decent PC seller will give you the OS on CD or recovery CDs/Partition.
__________________

My System: The Hybrid Lappy

Processor(s):
AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-64 2.2GHz
Motherboard:
HP nForce 560
RAM Memory:
2GB DDR2 PC2-5300
Graphics Card(s):
Nvidia 7150M Onboard Integrated
Sound Card:
5.1 Onboard Integrated
Hard Drive(s):
250GB 5400RPM SATA300
Optical Drive(s):
18x CD/DVDRW-DL ATA
Case / PSU:
Stock HP
Cooling:
Stock HP
Network / Internet:
10/100 Nic / 10MB Virgin Cable
Monitor(s):
17" WXGA+ HD BrightView Widescreen
Operating System(s):
Windows Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
  #3  
Old 3rd Nov 2008, 13:55
Member Group
 
Posts: 110
Default New Computer / No Disk of course

Do you know of any software that will clone the OS to a Zip file.
After it's zipped how do you get it to reload it's self.

New one has Vista and old one has xp Pro Sp3 and I thought I was a sticky where you can add them both on??
  #4  
Old 3rd Nov 2008, 14:08
Member Group
 
Posts: 110
Default New Computer / No Disk of course

freeware us what I meant,
You had a stick of xp & vista.... Whats the benefit of having them both there?
  #5  
Old 3rd Nov 2008, 17:52
Member Group
 
Posts: 110
Default New Computer / No Disk of course

is trere a ;link comparng the two togerher<M

Many Thanks,
  #6  
Old 5th Nov 2008, 02:33
New Member Group
 
Posts: 2
Default New Computer / No Disk of course

Quote:
Originally Posted by mpenney View Post
If you purchase a computer and the software is alreay on there iis there a way to manually burn a back up of the OS?
If you were not provided with install discs or recovery discs by the manufacturer, then the factory default OS installation + software loadout will be in a separate recovery partition.

You'll need to create your own recovery disks using this partition. Refer to the manual for details, because the name of the preinstalled application used for this varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.

As for recovering, you'll need to boot into recovery console (usually F12) and select the system recovery option. It will ask for the recovery DVDs then.
  #7  
Old 8th Nov 2008, 23:49
Member Group
 
Posts: 110
Default New Computer / No Disk of course

Thanks everyone. I'll get with the manafacture and create a recovery disks if anything is to go wrong.

MPenney

Please support this forum, donate towards our running costs.
Reply

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Back up disk ken979 General Software Chat 4 23rd Apr 2008 09:04
Disk Knight Need Help S.O.S Disk Knight hater Virus, Spyware & Security 1 18th Jan 2008 20:38
No hard disk installed on my computer T.T link590o Drives & Removable Media 5 5th Jan 2008 16:11
Burning an OS onto a disk syth2002 Windows Operating Systems 2 11th Oct 2007 10:57
Hard disk and disk drive in serise? Curly_tom Drives & Removable Media 3 12th Jun 2007 10:40

Tags
computer, disk

Bookmarks
Thread Tools



Arabic Bulgarian Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish

Copyright ©2006 - 2009 Computer Juice.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2009 Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. SEO by vBSEO ©2009, Crawlability, Inc.