Vista Home Premium / Dell Vostro 200 - how to create recovery discs....

I'm getting nowhere with this !
Have been Googling, and hunting around this PC looking for something that
looks like it might be missing,
or simply never included in the first place !

I was guessing that this PC came with a leaflet, and/or advice usually along
the lines of, "The first thing you must do is create a 'Recovery Disc set,'
"
Well, I have scoured through, for ages, what's installed on this DELL PC and
I'm darned if I can see it !

I wanted to make a "Recovery Disc Set" that could, if necessary, restore the
Recovery Partition, and working VISTA platform etc. (as a fall back) - to a
new hard disk, BEFORE I image the current, possibly failing, hard disk onto
a new hard disk - which is currently on order. (Have already "Vista file
backup'd to external USB hd btw),

I don't know enough about how the DELL Vostro 200 / Vista Home Premium [F8]
"Factory Restore" from the 'Recovery Partition' drive D:\ is configured
but, I'm betting that a Norton Ghost 14.0 backup of just the Recovery
Partition to a new drive will obviously not work - hence WHERE is the
procedure to create the set of DELL "Factory Restore" discs ?

...any tips MUCHLY appreciated :-)

regards, Richard

RJK wrote:
> I'm getting nowhere with this !
> Have been Googling, and hunting around this PC looking for
> something that looks like it might be missing,
> or simply never included in the first place !
>
> I was guessing that this PC came with a leaflet, and/or advice
> usually along the lines of, "The first thing you must do is create
> a 'Recovery Disc set,' "
> Well, I have scoured through, for ages, what's installed on this
> DELL PC and I'm darned if I can see it !
>
> I wanted to make a "Recovery Disc Set" that could, if necessary,
> restore the Recovery Partition, and working VISTA platform etc. (as
> a fall back) - to a new hard disk, BEFORE I image the current,
> possibly failing, hard disk onto a new hard disk - which is
> currently on order. (Have already "Vista file backup'd to external
> USB hd btw),
> I don't know enough about how the DELL Vostro 200 / Vista Home
> Premium [F8] "Factory Restore" from the 'Recovery Partition' drive
> D:\ is configured but, I'm betting that a Norton Ghost 14.0 backup
> of just the Recovery Partition to a new drive will obviously not
> work - hence WHERE is the procedure to create the set of DELL
> "Factory Restore" discs ?
> ..any tips MUCHLY appreciated :-)

Dell has done a little of everything when it comes to PC
restoration/recovery. They have had/have restoration/recovery parttiitions,
they have had (cannot say *I* have seen this in a while, so I will stick
with 'have had') the end-user create recovery/restoration media after the
purchase and (one reason I like Dell) they send the CDs/DVDs along with the
system if asked.

What I am saying is that there may be no way to actual create an external
CD/DVD system based off what was originally shipped. It may be on the other
partition only.

Contact Dell and ask for media to be sent to you.

If it was Windows 7...
https://support.dell.com/support/top...ckupcd_form%20

Using this method to restore?
http://support.dell.com/support/topi...le=&dl=#Issue3

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1680

In any case - contact Dell to get media (either purchased or free.)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

"Shenan Stanley" <> wrote in message
news:...
> RJK wrote:
>> I'm getting nowhere with this !
>> Have been Googling, and hunting around this PC looking for
>> something that looks like it might be missing,
>> or simply never included in the first place !
>>
>> I was guessing that this PC came with a leaflet, and/or advice
>> usually along the lines of, "The first thing you must do is create
>> a 'Recovery Disc set,' "
>> Well, I have scoured through, for ages, what's installed on this
>> DELL PC and I'm darned if I can see it !
>>
>> I wanted to make a "Recovery Disc Set" that could, if necessary,
>> restore the Recovery Partition, and working VISTA platform etc. (as
>> a fall back) - to a new hard disk, BEFORE I image the current,
>> possibly failing, hard disk onto a new hard disk - which is
>> currently on order. (Have already "Vista file backup'd to external
>> USB hd btw),
>> I don't know enough about how the DELL Vostro 200 / Vista Home
>> Premium [F8] "Factory Restore" from the 'Recovery Partition' drive
>> D:\ is configured but, I'm betting that a Norton Ghost 14.0 backup
>> of just the Recovery Partition to a new drive will obviously not
>> work - hence WHERE is the procedure to create the set of DELL
>> "Factory Restore" discs ?
>> ..any tips MUCHLY appreciated :-)
>
> Dell has done a little of everything when it comes to PC
> restoration/recovery. They have had/have restoration/recovery
> parttiitions, they have had (cannot say *I* have seen this in a while, so
> I will stick with 'have had') the end-user create recovery/restoration
> media after the purchase and (one reason I like Dell) they send the
> CDs/DVDs along with the system if asked.
>
> What I am saying is that there may be no way to actual create an external
> CD/DVD system based off what was originally shipped. It may be on the
> other partition only.
>
> Contact Dell and ask for media to be sent to you.
>
> If it was Windows 7...
> https://support.dell.com/support/top...ckupcd_form%20
>
> Using this method to restore?
> http://support.dell.com/support/topi...le=&dl=#Issue3
>
> http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=1680
>
> In any case - contact Dell to get media (either purchased or free.)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

Many thanks,

I have waded through Dell web-site attempting to request, and/or buy
recovery disc set but, keep getting stuck on the American-ised web form,
even though I kept switching the web page to UK !

regards, Richard