Recovery USB, made from C: drive or the factory installed Windows Recovery...

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Recovery USB, made from C: drive or the factory installed Windows Recovery partition

Forum: Help

Creator: Abdul Rafay Khan

Created: 2016-03-02

Updated: 2016-03-11

Abdul Rafay Khan - 2016-03-02

Ok, so my hard disk is about to fail and I want to clone it to a new HDD.

I was told I should make a recovery CD/USB first.

The instructions on the Clonezilla website say:
first, save an image of the disk on a USB, and
then, create an Autorun Clonezilla Recovery Live USB (ACRLU).

I completely understand the process and how it is to be done...

My question is, my laptop came with a recovery partition when I bought it (note: I have updated it from Windows 8 to 10 since I bought it), should I just save an image of the recovery partition (by selecting "saveparts" at the image creation stage) and then create an ACRLU?
Would this be enough for a Clonezilla recovery disk??
Or should I follow the instructions exactly and select "savedisk" and then create ACRLU???

Last edit: Abdul Rafay Khan 2016-03-02

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Steven Shiau - 2016-03-06

It's recommended to use "savedisk" to save the whole disk if you have enough disk space as the image repository to save the whole disk as image.

Steven.

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- Abdul Rafay Khan - 2016-03-11
  
  Thanks steven, guess I am gonna go cloning without a recovery image fingers crossed..
  
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