Late creation of recovery discs

1

1eyedjack

New Member
Hi all

My daughter has an Asus laptop (Win Vista) which I believe contains a facility to create "recovery discs" intended for use in order to re-install the operating system at its factory-settings state.

This was not done at the time of purchase, and a year or so down the line the operating system has become so corruct or unstable that rather than try to fix all the issues I would prefer to go down the full re-installation route.

My question is: If we create a set of recovery discs now, from this compromised PC, can we place reliance on the recovery discs being clean? In other words, if we create the recovery discs now and then re-install, would we just end up re-installing the same corrupted mishmash that we currently have? Or does it pick up the information from some hidden file or partition that will not have been amended by viruses etc since original installation in the factory?
 
No, you would be safe in the aspect that the recovery files can't be infected/corrupted as they are usually in a hidden partition not accessible by the operating system.
 
the good thing about laptops having the recovery partition they are very rarely effected by a virus.

like said before if you can make the recovery disks with a virus active they will be fine and wont be infected, i however have had a latop that has been so bogged down with virus etc that it couldnt complete burning the disk

usually you can access the recovery partition by pressing f8 (differs by brand) also some laptop manufacturers will allow you to download a disk image that will recover vista incase there is more serious problems like i mentioned
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top