Creating a Recovery Partition

[karthikaravind]

Dear Friends,

I would like to know how to create a recovery partition.

I have a Dell Laptop and there is a recovery partition - using this at any point I can revert back to Factory defaults.

Suppose I delete the recovery partition (I mean format my entire hard drive ) Is there a way to create the recovery partition again ?

I have Dell supplied Windows CD with me.

Also I could see Factory.wim (6.98 GB) ,Base.wim (6.98 GB) and few other files in the recovery partition.

So with these resources available Can I create a recovery partition If I delete the recovery partition

When I asked Dell Technical Support Executive the person said that it is not possible because some information regarding the recovery partition will be written to the boot record.

Can Some one help me on this ?

[grabben]

Perhaps your recoverydvd can but Im not sure.

otherwise you can follow this: http://en.kioskea.net/faq/4093-windows-7-create-a-recovery-partition

[jaclaz]

DELL's Recovery partitions (there are several "kinds" of them):

http://www.goodells.net/dellutility/

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/

I presume that the 7 based one is similar to the Vista one:

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/vista/

http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/vista/vistarecovery.shtml

but cannot say.

If this is the case it is a "normal" 7 recovery partition as per above post by grabben

jaclaz