I hate to admit this, but I come from the old school of computers when you always got a restore/boot disk when you got a machine.  I RECENTLY got a NEW machine, and have not succeeded yet in making either a boot dvd or a total restore dvd for the OS (Vista Ultimate).    After trying unsuccessfully to do this, just wanted to know if there is an especially good, step-by-step, article, post, or sticky that would walk me through both creating a boot dvd and a restore dvd?
All advice is most appreciated.
There you are.
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/#comment-125249flipflopjd DVD will let you access Recovery partition, but you still should have Recovery disks for your particular machine.
You should be able to create them, using your computer, or, if it doesn't work (like it HAPPENED with my Compaq), your computer maker, should send you a set, free of charge.Whose machine is this ? ?
They should have instructions at their website...Thanks for all the suggestions.

This is a generic, no-name brand.  Name brand components but not a particular MAKE. Quote from: Broni on May 17, 2008, 01:40:33 PM

flipflopjd DVD will let you access Recovery partition, but you still should have Recovery disks for your particular machine.
You should be able to create them, using your computer, or, if it doesn't work (like it happened with my Compaq), your computer maker, should send you a set, free of charge.