Recovery Disc for Windows Vista or Windows 7 - Comments Page 2

ImgBurn is an excellent free Iso burning tool. I vastly prefer it to IsoImageBurner.com. As a second choice I would use CDBurnerXpPro.

I see others posted questions here, so I'll try....

Will a kind soul answer me please? I get frequent popups from Dell Data Safe Local Backup sitting in my task bar urging to create a System Recovery Media.

MY QUESTION: Is this the same as the recovery DVDs mentioned in this article and comments? If so, what type of disk should I buy please? I have win7.

But if it isn't, what's the easiest way to create a recovery disk as being commented here?

I find doing these tech things intimidating and afraid of doing something wrong to hurt the computer.

Thanks ever so much for your help! Adela

You mention a way to create recovery disks free. But when I follow your link, NeoSmart wants $19.75 for each OS that you want to download.

Not knocking the article it was nicely done, however the "final solution" to do a system repair on windows 7 is pathetic. Not totally knocking MS's repair disk as it does contain many specific, to the point tools that come in handy, but as a tool to fix its operating system it is an approximately 90% failure (I liberally use 90% as probably 1 out of 10 times or less it fixes the problem satisfactorily). For example, it goes through several minute (sometimes gets hung up!) scanning routine that "once in a while" does fix the disk displaying disk signature and other cryptic messages baffling to the neophyte (me, I, and myself!). As that crook told Dirty Harry, it is a "total waste of white", and that is about what this utility is, as its tools are good, but they are practically worthless at fixing a system AUTOMATICALLY without being a "wiz kid". Windows 98 had a lot of great features that MS abandoned, such as an ATTEMPT (even though quite ill fated!) at internet explorer repair, and the best being the ATTEMPT to be able to fix the system by inserting the Windows 98 disk in and it would delete the corrupted files and replace with install disk perfect files. Again this worked every so often but still was an abysmal failure that waste oodles of time going around in circles with the ultimate victim not being me, but to those that made such a rotten bunch of crap which god is in heaven taking notes to punish those later for being an butt wipe and forcing unknown people to waste their whole life in futility by trying to repair their operating system. Thats what EVERY Windows operating system is lacking & should have out of the box which is a tool that goes through the registry & file system and repairs broken/missing items. Maybe it would not work 100% of the time but at least it would not cause the agony of having to reinstall the brontosaurus size bloated operating systems of modern times as they take a long time to reinstall (for the common folk with not as good of equipment. I know get a real job and a part time one at McDonalds too, but the real world has its limitations & cash is getting harder to come by for the average bloke). In fact, Microsoft could easily create such an item but does not, and their answers from their so called "MVP's" on their web site is appalling as they many times give answers that plain old don't work & and are circular pointing back to loser solutions that are obviously wrong/ineffective. Thus the gist of my point is that your article, although good, is mostly pointless since most users are not Donald Knuth but need something that can AUTOMATICALLY repair the operating system, or at least weaken malware to the point where it can be cleaned. Better for this article would be talking about something that can FIND AND REPLACE faulty OS files & registry entries and would check their dependencies and delete malevolent links that allow malware to "creep back in".

Microsoft programmed/invented the Recovery Discs software to fix their expensive O/S that keeps on crashing; I think it was called DART! It was going to be inherent part of Vista SP1 (and beyond...) but BEING what they are, they removed it all, in order to make yet MORE money from us "suckers", with PAID FOR "technical help", down the road! But NeoSmart caught wind of the situation and made ISO images of it all and are now extorting all of us "suckers" out here, for yet MORE money; for software they merely re-packaged!
SHAME on ALL those "greaseballs"!