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This is another concern of mine. I not only didn't get CDs with the last
2
PCs, but no nag screens either. How do I make a bootable disc for them or
one of these "images"?

Assuming they _have_ the ability to make one, the way to do so will vary
from make to make and probably model to model. Get the manual (if you
didn't get one with, and you may well not have, it should be downloadable
as a .pdf [usually] from the manufacturer's website), and - if it isn't
obvious from the contents list - search it for the word recovery or
emergency.

Looks like I found it. I'll be making some DVDs later tonight for this HP
W-10 Notebook.

Back to the Toshiba.


Just doing that for this Toshiba Portégé: the manual suggests there's
something called Recovery Media Creator, which should be visible from the
Start menu. I can't see it! However, I have found Start Programs
Maintenance Create a System Repair Disc. Have you anything similar?
(The route to it may be different, especially on 10 [I'm on 7 with
Classic Shell]; perhaps typing Repair Disc [or disk!] into the search box
on your 10 may find it.)

The Toshiba is W-7, also has Classic Shell installed, is dead in the
water. All I can get is the F12 screen that is basically useless at this
point.

I've just tried running it: it looks like it might be a Microsoft thing
rather than Toshiba. It asks me to select the drive (there's only the one
optical drive in this machine) and put a blank disk in, and tells me "A
system repair disc can be used to boot your computer. It also contains
Windows system recovery tools that can help you recover Windows from a
serious error or restore your computer from a system image." I haven't
proceeded further.

I wish I had one of those. I never thought to look for a way to make a
rescue or boot disk for the Toshiba.

On the whole, I think a third-party imaging tool, Like Macrium or Acronis
(both free), with the boot CD they allow you to make, along with just
copying (or using something like SyncToy), is better. (I image C: and any
hidden partitions, and just copy/sync. my D: [data] partition.) The
reason being that these restore everything exactly how you had it -
including all the software you've installed, including all the tweaks to
both the OS and the software you've done over the years; whereas using
recovery tools _can_ alter things, in the extreme returning to as-new,
losing all your software (and possibly data). You put the image - and
data copy - on an external disc.

I remember having something like that years ago. But when the black screen
with the blinker occured, it didn't work. Nothing worked. There was no
way to make the PC SEE the drive and respond. It didn't work as
advertised. I may as well have inserted a pancake in the drive. I have
everything of value on the Toshiba saved to a thumbdrive. I need some
kind of emergency boot disc for the Toshiba but was unable to find
anything online to download and burn to a DC or DVD. I'm going to check
these two out later. Macrium and
Acronis.


One is a Tablet w/W-10 and the other a Notebook
w/W-10. I have nothing in case one goes dark on me. The one before
these


I know little about tablets; if you even can make recovery software for
those, I don't know how you'd use it, as they don't have an optical
drive. The notebook I assume _does_ have such a drive.

The Tablet has a USB port. The Notebook the usual optical drive.

is a HP laptop and I followed the directons and the info was copied onto
a
Thumbdrive. But can that $900 dollar PC boot from it? I have no idea.
There
was no info as to what to do with the thumbdrive if the computer crashed.


I imagine you turn it on with the thumbdrive plugged in. You might have
to amend the boot order in the BIOS so that it boots from USB first. $900
sounds a lot for a laptop - or even a desktop for that matter!

It's a HP I bought 2 or 3 years ago mainly for the kids since it has some
kind of special sofware that makes it very fast. It was recommended for
gamers. I got it at Best Buy. It has 12GBs memory and a 1TB HD. They love
it.

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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

BTW, I 'm acessing OE6 from a thumbdrive. An ancient free version RunasXP
was going away a few years back.

Microsoft motto "if it ain't broke keep fixing it till it is."