Recovery Partition

[army12b]

Do you know how most computers you buy (Dell, HP) have that recovery partition? I am going to be buying a 1TB hard drive to add to my Dell. I wish to make that hard drive Ubuntu and create a recovery partition like those for Ubuntu on my Dell already. I want it to have the software recovery and Ubuntu recovery. How do i do this?

[Bakon Jarser]

I'm not sure how to do exactly what you are talking about but you can make a backup disk of your system using remastersys. Once you get your system just the way you want you can make a live cd (with or without your personal data) and be able to get your system back up and running very quickly with it on any machine.

http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/

[Mark Phelps]

Everyone has their own favorites, and one of mine is PING -- Partimage Is Not Ghost. This is a project that provides a downloadable ISO file, from which you can boot a variant of Linux and do partition backup and restore.

Using this, you could create a new partition, boot from the CD, and store an image of your Linux partitions there. If you ever had a problem, you could reboot from the CD and restore your original Linux partitions.

There's also a way to store the boot programs on the hard drive so you don't have to use th CD.

Suggest you check out the PING stuff at the following link:

http://www.windowsdream.com/ping.html