Creating recovery drives from manufacturer's recovery part

[mech-eng]

What are the best ways or tools to create recovery drives such as recovery DVDs or USB recovery drives?

Thank you.

 

[jedishrfu]

What do you mean by recovery? Windows provides recovery drives as CDs. Knoppix can be downloaded to a USB stick to make a recovery drive that will boot your machine to Knoppix linux so you can get some of your lost files.

Some people will simply mount a USB stick and copy selected files to it using a script. Usually the USB stick is too small to hold all your files though.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Use the tools provided by the manufacturer of the PC.

 

[mech-eng]

What do you mean by recovery? Windows provides recovery drives as CDs.

Sorry for poor explanation. Actually it wasn't about data recovery but about system recovery. PC manufacturer's might provide a recovery part as a hard drive partition, in mine it is called as recovery part and is almost 12 GB.

Thank you.

 

[Vanadium 50]

And the manufacturer either provided you the tools to make a recovery CD/DVD/USB or they did not. If they did not, you are stuck.

 

[mech-eng]

And the manufacturer either provided you the tools to make a recovery CD/DVD/USB or they did not. If they did not, you are stuck.

But what makes the manufacturer's tool so special and precise? Why cannot other recovery-making tools, such as rufus, work with them? What is the technical background and reasons for this precise situation?

Thank you.

 

[Vanadium 50]

They don't want you taking the recovery image to a different computer and using it to install bundled software. Furthermore, they don't want to unnecessarily complicate matters: if you can use it to do recovery on that PC, it's good enough. They don't have to work to add features beyond this.

 

[mech-eng]

They don't want you taking the recovery image to a different computer and using it to install bundled software. Furthermore, they don't want to unnecessarily complicate matters: if you can use it to do recovery on that PC, it's good enough. They don't have to work to add features beyond this.

But I think the worst thing is that owners of PC can have only one recovery part, if I understand it correctly?

The note of 1 in the link: Everything on the drive is deleted when you create the recovery drive.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-pavilion-15-n000-notebook-pc-series/5401225/model/5443031/document/c03529751

This is a risk because what if the recovery part we carried from PC to an external device such as a usb stick break down or external device break down itself?

Thank you.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Why the heck are you arguing with me? Argue with the manufacturers.