Creating a recovery disc

[Buz]

I have an Acer laptop, about 2 years old (spookily Comet asked me a few weeks ago to extend the warranty, Guess what!!!).
On start up it is now telling me that Drive 2 is thinking about failing at the time that will be the most inconvenient for me, I also have an icon in the system tray stating "A hard drive in the system reports that it may fail!" bloody clever these PC's.
Anyway i've copied all pics/music etc and am just waiting for the end of the world, well, hard drive.
Is it possible to create a system restore DVD ready for when the inevitable happens? I'm sure when i first bought it, it would prompt me occasionally to create one!

 

[jailon]

what OS is it? XP ? Vista?

 

[Buz]

oh yeah, Vista

 

[GunZenBomZ]

Clone your laptop O/S.

 

[Buz]

Clone your laptop O/S.

Good idea but one major flaw, I wouldn't have a
Clue how to do that

 

[bsogri]

Acer recovery

Acer usually has its own recovery program i think it is in manage recovery or something like that look in hand book, download all the stuff you want to keep, and it has a reformat section, it also has a partial recovery reformat which keeps yout=r present settings,,, look in your files ACER ARCADE and selext what you want to do

 

[gypsy]

Search for "acer erecovery" on your puter