Re: Creating a Recovery Partition

ravi <dceravigupta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 7, 9:54 am, VWWall <vw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ravi wrote:
Hello,

I have had this problem for a very long time and I'm sure someone on
this website can help me find a solution.

Basically, I would like to create a recovery partition on my hard
drive. I am aware of how to do this using software such as Norton
Ghost etc. But I would like to create this recovery without using this
kind of software.

Something like how HP, Dell, PC World etc. have theirs set up? So if a
virus corrupts the C: drive, and I need to format my drive, I can just
hit the F10 key (or F11 etc.) in bios to access the recovery partition
without using the Ghost disc?

This is usually done by having a a special program in the BIOS which
responds to that key, and boots that "recovery partition".

What operating system normally boots? I've only seen this for Windows.

I have seen such "recovery partitions" that could be booted from GRUB by
putting it in menu.lst. Of course GRUB must be put into the MBR of the
drive that the BIOS normally boots, and the remainder of GRUB with
menu.lst put where it's accessible from there. In a dual boot with
Linux, this is already in /boot/grub. In this case Windows can be
"chainloaded" as a menu choice.

I hope I have made myself clear, it would be very much appreciated if
someone can help me, thank you.

--
Virg Wall

can explain it for windows?

On a typical Windows machine, there is an option in the BIOS
to boot a second partition, the "recovery" partition. I don't
know exactly how that is done, but there are many ways.

One could probably replace that partion with a bootable linux
partition, but I don't think that's a useful thing to do. It
is just as easy to boot directly from a bootable linux CD.
Several are available on the openSUSE site, though you do have
to download it and burn it into a CD.

--
--- Paul J. Gans
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