I have an Inspiron 6400 (Vista, MediaDirect), and I haven't found any clear resources to make a backup of the recovery partition, in order to be able to make use of that partition to my convenience.
I have read about Norton Ghost, an image-restore software, and MBR (Master Boot Record) savers so that I don't have any problems with the original Dell boot.
So, is it possible to make a Recovery partition Backup to DVD, and a Dell MBR Backup, so that I can delete this partition and restore from this DVD any time I want? Would I just have to use a boot CD to restore the MBR first, and then somehow point the MBR to the DVD drive to restore Dell's Windows?
I would really like to know if it's as easy as it sounds... I'm dying to make a new partition, but I don't want to lose the Recovery system.
I have read about Norton Ghost, an image-restore software, and MBR (Master Boot Record) savers so that I don't have any problems with the original Dell boot.
So, is it possible to make a Recovery partition Backup to DVD, and a Dell MBR Backup, so that I can delete this partition and restore from this DVD any time I want? Would I just have to use a boot CD to restore the MBR first, and then somehow point the MBR to the DVD drive to restore Dell's Windows?
I would really like to know if it's as easy as it sounds... I'm dying to make a new partition, but I don't want to lose the Recovery system.
