[shiprock520]

I would like to ask Dave A. how to use an external USB Drive and True Image for Disk recovery for reformat that you mentioned in a previous post. I tried the Create a disk on my HP with Home premium Vista with Memorex CD-RW but I get an error message that the CD which is blank is full and insert another.

[Elvandil]

Use the True Image bootable CD. If you can make an image on your USB via the CD, then you will also be able to later recover that image.

[JohnWill]

Try CD-R blank media, I've never tried the TI wizard using CD-RW media.

[shiprock520]

Thanks for the answer but I'll have to look up 'true image' as I never heard of it. My HP wants to format each blank it seems, so I would have to format about 13 disks for the recovery. It might be cheaper to buy from HP as I heard its about $15 for the CD. Thanks again.

[Elvandil]

DVD's or an external (or internal) drive are better choices. The images are compressed, so they will take less space than your installation.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/

[shiprock520]

I checked True Image out, it looks good, I do have two external HD for my files already, a Maxtor and the HP 80GB that doesn't require a plug in the wall for my laptop. Still True Image seems like a great way to go, Thanks

[DaveA]

The others were able to jump in and say what I would have said before I could.

[JohnWill]

For boot image backups, Acronis True Image, available at NewEgg for $30 downloaded, search for Acronis.