On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 19:35:06 Peter Merchant wrote:
> Rather than working with the recovery partition, why not create an
> empty partition and use clonezilla to back up the good system and then
> write that to DVD? I presume that you have system and data separated
> on different partitions?
Well that was Plan A. However, even a clean install of Windows 7 takes up
around 20 GB or so. By the time I'd broached the subject, my son (who is the
prime user of Lynn's laptop), had boosted that to 50 GB.
Microsoft, of course, have never heard of dividing the installation into
separate partitions to make maintenance easier, so we had a 600 GB partition
with over 50 GB used. Even with compression that would have taken quite a few
dual-layer DVDs, so Plan B was to back up the recovery partition....
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