I have a Dell Inspiron 545MT and as you might know that there is a recovery partition that is available to reimage your computer. Well I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit English and I will be getting a new brand Inspiron 545MT that I bough soon. I would like to ask the following questions: I would like to create a system image on the first day I receive my new PC so that when I make the system image I can keep the system images in case of hard drive failure of if the recovery partition has been corrupted, I can restore windows just like how dell has your PC configured. So I plan to do this: 1. Click Start, Control Panal, System and Security, Backup and Restore and on the left panel, Click Create Sytem Image. 2. Choose the create the system image in a DVD because I don't have a Portable Hard drive. 3. Click next and then I see the confirm your backup settings. I see a message that the following drives will be backed up: Recovery and OS. Where recovery is the dell partition and OS is Windows. 4. I click start backup and the backup process starts. I see that Windows has took approximately and entire blank DVD to backup Recovery and prompts me to insert another DVD. I will do this until the process completes. I want to find out something; When I would like to reimage my computer using the backup that I have created: 1. How do restore the PC using the disks I have created? 2. Do I insert the 1st DVD that has the recovery partition or start from the 2nd DVD? Please help me!

Hi Dookhan, after checking the issue, it seems this is a general Windows 7 related issue. As this forum focuses on Windows SteadyState specific issues, this inquiry would best be posted to Windows 7 forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/w7itpro The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.Sean Zhu - MSFT