Creating an EISA partition for recovery - for custom built desktop?

rudeboymcc · 31 May 2008 at 08:08

Hi. Just playing aroudn wiht my vaio and I've found it's got a recovery partition which is hidden (EISA). If anything goes wrong with windows, I can hit F10 while booting adn recovery everything back to its original state.

Is there any way to do this on a desktop that's custom built? It would be basically like having recovery cds with norton ghost or trueimage, but on the hard disk which is much better. just I'm away from home at hte moment and when something goes wrong (and it has) i have to go back to fix it.

h2009 · 2 Jun 2008 at 07:17

i'd like to know this as well

paradigm · 2 Jun 2008 at 08:23

Have a read of THIS.

Note: You will need a .doc reader

paradigm · 2 Jun 2008 at 10:31

Just thought I'd update this:

I've not done this before, I just became intrigued when reading the OP, and decided to research the topic myself. I'm currently working through the steps outlined in the whitepaper, and hope to have a fully functioning EISA recovery partition by the end of the day.

UPDATE1: Well I've got a partition, and I'm in the middle of creating a customized Windows PE image to go on it at the moment

Bane · 5 Jun 2008 at 19:48

I was hoping there was a Microsoft application that did all for you, for free

paradigm · 6 Jun 2008 at 11:19

Sadly not, no. You have to know what you are doing.

I've got some more updates, but I'm not at work to grab screenies at the moment.