Has the "Create a recovery disc" feature been pulled from Vista SP1

d.chatten · 19 Mar 2008 at 22:15

I seem to remember a new feature that was going to be included with Vista SP1 called "Create a recovery disc", this feature would create a bootable CD/DVD that contained a slimmed down version of Vista that enables users to use the recovery consul of the Vista install disc, even if you don't have the Vista installation media, this feature was located in Start > All Programs > Maintenance > Create a recovery disc, the thing is, this feature doesn't show up on three Vista systems that i have just updated to SP1.

Has anyone had this feature installed along with SP1? also, does anyone know if this feature has been pulled from the official Vista SP1 release?

Thanks!

d.chatten · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:00

Bump!

gareth170 · 21 Mar 2008 at 18:42

yes, they have removed it. it may come back in the future

d.chatten · 21 Mar 2008 at 20:19

Thanks for replying, microsoft seem to have a habbit of removing useful features.

gareth170 · 21 Mar 2008 at 21:20

i use Acronis True Image 11 to backup and restore... but it would have be good to have one builtin vista

d.chatten · 21 Mar 2008 at 21:40

The Vista recovery disc only allows you to repair the boot files and run certain diagnostics utilities that are available on the retail and OEM installation media, the problem is, if you purchase a PC from a large company you don't get the Windows media as Windows comes preinstalled on such machines, hence the "Create a recovery disc" option.

gareth170 · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:38

d.chatten said:
The Vista recovery disc only allows you to repair the boot files and run certain diagnostics utilities that are available on the retail and OEM installation media, the problem is, if you purchase a PC from a large company you don't get the Windows media as Windows comes preinstalled on such machines, hence the "Create a recovery disc" option.

but they should give u a recovery disc to restore the system... because if windows fails how will u restore it....

benjo plz. · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:40

d.chatten said:
The Vista recovery disc only allows you to repair the boot files and run certain diagnostics utilities that are available on the retail and OEM installation media, the problem is, if you purchase a PC from a large company you don't get the Windows media as Windows comes preinstalled on such machines, hence the "Create a recovery disc" option.

these are two different things.