recovery discs

[theted]

hi, i,m getting a brand new acer laptop on tuesday, running vista and was wondering how to do recovery discs... is it a easy enough job to do as i dont know much about pcs..kind regards theted.

[patio]

An Acer should ship with them...

[theted]

ok..thanks patio..

[patio]

For your own personal backups also look into Macrium Reflect...they have a Free Edition for Home users.

[fgdn17]

An Acer should ship with them...

 think you'll find most don't ship them anymore...there is a recovery tool on the
machines that you use to burn a recovery disk once it's up and running....the user documentation
should explain how to create your recovery disk...IMO

[patio]

If it does not ship with them you can request them and they will send them no charge.
Acer has been doing this all along.

[theted]

think you'll find most don't ship them anymore...there is a recovery tool on the
machines that you use to burn a recovery disk once it's up and running....the user documentation
should explain how to create your recovery disk...IMO..hope its easy to do..thanks theted

[fgdn17]

yes according to their support page it ask you to create them, and you insert a CD/DVD
and it burns the recovery disk for you...most major manufactures have been doing it like this
for abot 4-5 years...and most only allow it as a one time thing...

[Quantos]

yes according to their support page it ask you to create them, and you insert a CD/DVD
and it burns the recovery disk for you...most major manufactures have been doing it like this
for abot 4-5 years...and most only allow it as a one time thing...

The trouble with that is burned or copied disks use a light sensitive dye on the surface to record data.  They don't last as long as a factory burned disk.  Factory burned disks usually have physical changes in the foil surface, and don't corrupt anywhere near as easily.

[BC_Programmer]

there is no such thing as a factory "burned" disc, they are stamped.

CD-R literally burns marks into the recording layer to change the reflectiveness; CD-RW relies on crystalizing and melting of something in the recording layer.

[Quantos]

there is no such thing as a factory "burned" disc, they are stamped.

CD-R literally burns marks into the recording layer to change the reflectiveness; CD-RW relies on crystalizing and melting of something in the recording layer.

STAMPED, that was the word I was looking for.

Yeah, I'm not sure if it's a different dye or a combination of layers on a CD-RW.  The CD-R's are the ones with the standard dye.

[patio]

I got stamped once....but she was worth it...

[TechMaster]

Do note that the manufacturer sent discs tend to be for a series rather than the specific computer and may take much longer to complete that the ones created specifically for the PC 

[BC_Programmer]

Do note that the manufacturer sent discs tend to be for a series rather than the specific computer and may take much longer to complete that the ones created specifically for the PC 

there aren't "discs created specifically for a PC" so your point is moot.

[TechMaster]

I mean that if you run a recovery from the ones sent by the manufacturer it can take much longer to complete than the ones you create from the PC.