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Offline Everis

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Recovery Disk
« on: February 28, 2010, 05:08:56 PM »
Hi, this tip was suggested to me when I had to do recovery disk for my Vista desktop and I personally thought it was brilliant!

How many people have either lost a recovery disk, or found out one has been damaged somehow and was no longer able to work? Or your away from your place on holidays or on a business trip and something has gone funky with your laptop and it needs to be recovered? Your screwed from what I have been told if anything happeneds to one of those disks. I have not had to use them yet, but I can imagine.

The suggestion was that I make the disks into a ISO file(s), then pack them up. After that, you place them in a place where you can almost always have access to them. Most email providers allow a fair amount of space, so you attach the recovery disk ISO to an email, and either save it as a draft, or send it to yourself. Then if you need your recovery disk, you can always just download the files, burn them to disk and your good to go.

Hope this is of use to someone.

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Re: Recovery Disk
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2010, 05:25:07 PM »
Not a bad idea. I should have used a recovery disk for my x64 install. I'm battling a virus right now and it's not fun. Nice tip. :)
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Re: Recovery Disk
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2010, 05:13:56 PM »
If you break it down using a rar program, Gmail Drive would be easy enough to use. It only allows 25 mb attachments last I checked, so it should split then reassemble nicely.
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Re: Recovery Disk
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2010, 05:16:23 PM »
Splitting files and then putting them back together has never been a good idea in my opinion. This is a nice tip if you could find a way to upload without having to split the file. I have never had real problems with it but I just don't trust it.
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Re: Recovery Disk
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2010, 05:23:49 PM »
That is understandable. I'm sure there's a better method. :)
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Re: Recovery Disk
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2010, 05:30:42 PM »
Why not just add another drive to your computer and backup to that or store recovery iso's there.
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Re: Recovery Disk
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2010, 06:22:52 PM »
I didnt do mine, as ISOs hate me, but they may be broken down as each section, like drivers as one, software as another.. not sure, I just know they are all supposed to be there.
If you have a ftp area you can also add them there as a separate folder so I have been told.

I wanted my recovery disks protected and able to get to if I was not near them. I really do not want to have to take all my disks with me when I go away to school, and I have had problems with files vanishing on external drives. So that is why the friend suggested I put them somewhere else.
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