When WINDOWS Misbehaves and nothing else works, restoring the operating system via your restore CD or hidden hard-drive partition may be your last restore. So what should you do if you can’t find that precious CD?
The first thing to do is to get in touch with your system’s manufacturer and find out its policies. Usually ,some option will be available .I checked with six PC manufacturers ,and five of them(Gateway, HP, Lenovo, micro Electronics and micro Express)will sell you a recovery CD for between $15 and $40(Recovery media may not be available for older systems, however)Also, several companies include software on their machines for creating a new recovery disc.
The sixth PC manufacturer DELL has no stated replacement policy. But you worry that you don’t have a recovery tool and that someday you’ll desperately need one, create your won with a good backup program. The resulting recovery disc is arguably better than a factory issued back up tool, because it will restore a version of Windows that includes all of your personalized settings.
You’ll need a backup program with good disaster-recovery capabilities. Image-based backup programs such as Symatec’s Norton Ghost and Acronis’s True Image do nicely. Partial to Genie backup manager, which doesn’t use images but reliable restores Windows. You may own an image backup app already, such programs come with Vista’s Business, Enterprise and Ultimate editions, with Nero Burning, and with some external hard Drives. The trick is to make a single image or disaster-recovery backup of your drive and then put it aside. You should also create regular daily backups with the same program or another one, but you should keep your recovery backup separate from these, in a place where it won’t be overwritten.
If Windows ever becomes too broken to fix, first restore backup, and then restore your newer data from a recent data backup.
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