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Is it possible to create a recovery partition? (Similarly to name-brand computers)

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Trevante

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I'm wondering, is it possible to create a recovery partition on my harddrive, or on a spare harddrive? For example, on my brother's HP PC, when it boots up, the bios says "Press F10 to boot into recovery drive", and it boots into a separate FAT32 partition on the harddrive.

It would be nice if I could just boot into a partition that I can use to re-install windows instead of having to look for my Windows disc. It would also be nice if I could do this with a separate harddrives, I have quite a few 8 and 10GB harddrives lying around that I'm not doing much with.

Any help is appreciated.
 
not quite what you're looking for but consider using acronis true image and enable the acronis startup recovery manager which will give you a F11 boot option for recovery.
 
You can also use Image for DOS to create bootable image on a CD or DVD. I have used it several times in the past, works fine. There is also Image for Windows.

Probably Norton Ghost has similar features, but I haven't used it in a while.
 
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