create backup of laptop recovery partition

[marshall31415]

I'm about to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix and my Acer machine has a recovery partition at the beginning of the drive. I've created the eRecovery discs but those will only restore XP - not the actual recovery partition (which I'd like to have in case I sell the laptop later etc).

How can I backup the actual recovery partition, and keep its boot file intact. Then how can I restore this partition at a later time?

Thanks.

[sikander3786]

Clonezilla is the software that might help you.

http://clonezilla.org/

It is a disk clone, disk backup and disaster recovery software.

Sikander.

[Mark Phelps]

If you want a free MS Windows app for doing this, try EASUS Partition Master. Has much the same features as the old Partition Magic app but it's free.

[heatblazer]

Clonezilla or...
boot live ubuntu CD, connect to the network
sudo apt-get install partimage
follow the options of partimage.