[redden137]

Hi just got myself laptop from a m8 and would like to restore it to its original shop condition (before or if i decide to partition hard drive and install xp) have asked for recovery disks but he cant find them, so the question is can i do it and how?
have a recovery partition on hard drive and have tried to make a bootable dvd from it but it too large to fit on a norm blank dvd, have looked on the online manuel for the laptop but theres nothing about making a recovery dvd there also,
so is there a way i can do it?
if not no worries
info on laptop
MAKE - medion
MODEL- NO mam2100
O/S - vista home premium
CPU - amd turion x64 x2 1800mhz
RAM - 2gb
HDD -160gb split into two c boot: 130gb
d:recovery 20gb
OPTICAL DRIVE - dvd cd rewrite
also if there is no way to make a recovery disk would it be better to wipe vista and install xp pro on this laptop rather than split the hard drive and have a duel boot as ive noticed that vista is rather slow?

[Hybr!d]

Normally, with a recovery partition, you press a key on boot to get into it, not make a CD/DVD.

[redden137]

but wont i need the disks to restore it back to original settings?

[Hybr!d]

A recovery partition is instead of discs, it is a separate partition to your OS partition, you boot into it much like a CD and then follow the on screen instructions and just the OS partition gets restored, no CDs.

That is what a normal recovery partition is, how are you tying to make the CDs? Maybe you do not have a recovery partition but a recovery CD maker.

[serverguy]

Sony's are normally the only ones who make you create CDs.

But I am not up to date with it.

[redden137]

have tried pushing the f12 and f2 button but get prompted to insert recovrty disk each time so am sure it needs it