IBM should have included the option/software to make a back up CD/DVD if it could 
be done.  Have you checked with them to see if it is possible?  

Is it possible?  Yes probably, but you will need third party software and the knowledge/experience 
to do it.  Can't say for sure as I would have to see the files that were in the recovery 
partition.  

Your other option is to image the current drive to a back up hard drive (once everything 
is installed how you want it) and to optical media with something like Ghost, Drive 
Image or the other popular imaging software programs.  That way, you just dump an 
image back on the HDD instead of having to reinstall/recover the system.  The issue 
is that time sensitive programs and utilities (such as subscription based software) 
may not work correctly from an old image.

So on your system, it may be possible, but it could be a big headache and not something 
we can really help with from this forum.  IBM would/should be the best source of 
info since they know how their systems are set up and if it's possible to make a 
backup CD/DVD from the recovery/backup partition..





On Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 12:57 pm, Jose Luis Ivorra wrote:

>IBM do not supply the Windows OS in a CD with their computers, instead there is 
a 

>hidden partition in order to recovery the system to a factory state. I succeed in 

>extract this FAT32 partition to a C drive file. What I need to know is if it is 
possible 

>to make a bootable CD starting from that extracted files. Otherwise I won't be able 

>to recover the system in case of hard disk crash.

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