Creating recovery media in Windows 10

[comda]

Greetings!

Had a question regarding creating recovery media on an off the shelf PC. Its been years since i've bought one but i've managed to get this acer machine with it's OEM install and it is horribly filled with trash to the limit.

i want to create DVD recovery disks like i did with my windows 7 era machines and below so that in the event i want to pass this machine on, i can reinstall the OEM install. Problem is i cannot find any options to do that in the OEM acer install. There is a recovery option, but it opens Windows Recovery drive options.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Also looking for this same option on a Lenovo.

Acer machine i am dealing with is a A517-51G-52LB

Thanks.

[patio]

If Win 10 was successfully installed and ran proper you can simply clean install Win 10...the registration is in the BIOS now...

[comda]

That is not my issue.

i want to preserve the OEm install on a DVD for down the road. the license is not a problem because i dont want to necessarily run windows anyways

[evilfantasy]

it is horribly filled with trash to the limit.

i want to preserve the OEm install on a DVD for down the road.

Why do you want to preserve a backup of the OS that is "horribly filled with trash to the limit"?

If Win 10 was successfully installed and ran proper you can simply clean install Win 10...the registration is in the BIOS now...

@comda - You are here, again. Create Windows 10 installation media (Download tool now)

because i dont want to necessarily run windows anyways

Completely unrelated to the topic.

[comda]

Why do you want to preserve a backup of the OS that is "horribly filled with trash to the limit"?

Thank you for all that lol. I want to preserve a copy in case the original owner wants all this Acer crap with it. I plan on installing a clean install of Windows for the owner, but they indicated that they might want to dual boot.

Either way, i just wanted to create recovery DVD"s like you once could from the restore partition, so i nuke it all without worry of corrupting the recovery partition when installing a new OS.

[evilfantasy]

Windows restore options are very unreliable. And slow. You are better off with backup or imaging software like EaseUS Todo Backup.


Although the installation media link above is the go-to option now. You can install from scratch or do an in-place upgrade/repair. It's much more reliable and much faster than the built in Windows options.


Are you are just worried about their personal files/folders? If so just put them on a cheap flash drive. Imaging the entire OS for personal files/folders seems a bit ambitious. Imaging an OS filled with crap just for personal files/folders is very ambitious.


Anyway if you want the disk just go here.


(Windows 7) Create a system repair disc.


(Windows 10) Create a recovery drive.

[comda]

I think i am being misunderstood.

I dont care about personal files, nor the current install. I will be doing a fresh OS install.

Back in the day when you bought a XP/Vista/7 or 8 PC there came a recovery partition like this machine has. The computer had software that allowed you to copy that recovery partition to a DVD so that you could nuke the entire drive and use it for whatever.

I want to do a clean install of windows myself through a USB stick i have. That is irrelevant though. I want to simply create recovery DVD's so that IF the OWNER of this machine prefers to use the crap install that Acer gave them, they have that on the DVD's to install on the machine for a future date.

[evilfantasy]

You can use the Windows 7 method on Windows 10. Open 'Control Panel' > Backup and Restore (Windows 7) > Create a system image (upper left)

How well it will work is anybody's guess. MS has focused their energy on the installation media method.

I think i am being misunderstood.

That's my specialty... 

[comda]

You can use the Windows 7 method on Windows 10. Open 'Control Panel' > Backup and Restore (Windows 7) > Create a system image (upper left)

How well it will work is anybody's guess. MS has focused their energy on the installation media method.

That's my specialty... 

Well thats my issue haha. All these manufacturers had their own software. I want to find out if they have that on this machine as i dont see it. The last one I did years ago was done through Toshiba back up and recovery center. It created official legit disks, the same that would have been once included in the box.

[BC_Programmer]

For Acer machines the program you are looking for is "Acer eRecovery Management" which will create the factory restore discs from the information in the hidden partition.

If it's not available than it's probably not an OEM install.

[comda]

Thats what i was after! Thanks BC_programmer!

ill double check tonight. I think its the OEM install but you neever know.