What do the Rescue and Recovery CDRs contain

[stephan54]

I am doing an R&R of my wife's T60 and the system told me I need about 10 discs (have not finished yet).
The T60 is a few months old and this is the first R&R I do (the control center says a few were planned on C:, but I do not know if the task was executed).

In the meantime I installed Office and some other programmes.

My question: What is saved?
- only the original settings and programmes the T60 came with
or
- the present settings with installed programmes and files

If the latter is the case, can I still make a R&R of the original factory settings, if so, how do I do that?

Many questions I know and I appreciate your answers.

Thanks, Stephan

[ramian]

It'd be of the factory install. If you want to make an image of your current setup, you can use R&R or 3rd party backup applications (such as Acronis) which will be many times faster than R&R.

I even did an image of the factory install with Acronis, just so that I could quickly return to it in 10 mins instead of waiting around for the 2+ hours it took for me to do the recovery using R&R.

[stephan54]

Thanks, just a follow up. I read that the factory install took about 6 CDR, but R&R took 10, so I thought the factory install plus everything installed plus files were saved. I looked at the message and it said: last backup of local disk (sth like that translated from German), which sounds the complete C drive is saved.

Stephan

[computerdude]

I did the backup. The program required a CD as first medium, then I inserted a DVD and it seemed to work fine

[stephan54]

Thanks. This was probably a backup (task that can be done weekly or monthly), since I have no DVD writer it took me those 10 CDRs.
Stephan