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I run Acronis TI 2010 on Vista Business on a desktop.

My daughter recently purchased a notebook. We have replaced the vendors customised O/S with the factory O/S from the hidden partition. We then made a set of recovery DVDs. Compaq's software only allows us to make one set of recovery disks.

I put disk 1 in my optical drive (F:). I then connect a powered 4-port USB hub to a rear port, and connect an external DVD drive to 2 ports on this hub (to ensure sufficient power for the drive). This reports as G:.

How do I now create another set of recovery DVDs?

Using Windows Explorer I can R Click to bring up a copy option, but I want an image, not just a copy of the recovery disk files.

Acronis opens with the home tab selected. I choose Back up>my disks and all it shows are the partitions of my internal disk. How do I choose the recovery disk (F:) as the Partition (disk) to image?

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ATI won't copy your optical disks. To copy the recovery DVDs or CDs, use imgburn.exe. It's free and av ery very good optical reader/burner. It can create a disk image for you from an optical disk.

Cedric,

Just curious: why do you want to do an image of the recovery CD's and not of the system?

Thanks to both for comments.
Pat: The Recovery files fit on 3 DVDs, the system is 25GB, ie will take 5 DVD DLs. also, I have tried backing it up using ATI & it fails every time.
Scott: I have looked at imgburn, but am confused by all the options, such as ISO files etc. I just want to put the source DVD to my desktop's optical drive, put a blank DVD in an external USB drive (specs show it will burn all sorts of disks including DLs, but I only want it to do std DVD this time), and get an iamge of the source

By-the-way, I took rather a long time to see your answer because this forum didn't notify me of your answer, though I thought I had my account set for it to.

Cedric,

I meant why do you want to backup the recovery CDs? you can use ATI to create a system backup that is as good as any recoveryCD set. In fact it is much better since you can update it on a regular basis including the user content!

If you ever do get a backup onto 5 dvds, you're gonna go nuts if you ever have to restore. You'll be swapping disks back and forth like crazy. Teh files aren't laid out onthe disks in file order, but restore tries to restore them that way, so you end up doing swaps galore. If you only have two disks, some folks can toelrate it, but with 5, you'll need drugs to get you through it. If you value your time at all, get a hard disk to back up to.

If you just want to copy your recovery disks, You have facilty for doing that in windows. If you don't want to change all the options in imgburn you don'thave to. just put in origianl disk, create image from disk, copy image to disk. It's that simple. Read the instructions vai the web site and you'll learn.

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