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vista recovery disc ?

I purchased future publishing's quick and easy guide for windows Vista, And on page 114, under stability tips number 455, create a recovery Disc for your PC, By going to All Programs>Maintenance>Create a recovery disc, But it's not there, I have service pack 1 installed by the way before you ask, Is there a fix for this, And did the writer's not test SP1 properly before publishing the book, Many thanks.

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Hmm, that feature was in an early beta of SP1, but was later removed. Sounds like the compilers of that magazine didn't double-check this.

It's possible to download an ISO file of the recovery disc that was created from Neowin.net (see here), but you'll need a BitTorrent client to get hold of it. I'd recommend uTorrent (click here). Once done, just burn the ISO to CD using a program like ISO Recorder (click here) and you'll have yourself a recovery disc.

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