Is it possible to make a hard drive partition an active partition and copy the contents of a recovery CD/DVD to it and have it boot on start up? What I am looking to is have this boot from the hard drive rather than a CD/DVD so I can use Acronis true image software to restore the computer to a previous state, I think this would be a better idea than handing people recovery CD's/DVD’s that they may loose. Can any one help me with this theory? Tor Fey

It wont work. It could be made to work but just copying the contents of the CD to a hard disk is not the way to do it. The boot processes of a CD and a hard disk is completely different and trying to make a hard disk behave like a CD is fraught with problems. The bast way to do it is to create the recovery data on a spare hardisk partition in the first place without going anywhere near a CD/DVD. Stuart

Thanks for the information :@) I have decided to use Acronis True Image to make a hidden partition on a separate drive as this software provides me with the boot options I require and also allows me to save a complete disk image to the hidden partition, and so if I get failure I can just press F11 it works very well as I have now tried it on my virtual machine, I have also made an external bootable recovery disk encase of overall failure on both my drives. Many Thanks Tor Fey