昨天看到Vista Recovery Disc这个东西，再看下面的介绍，真是好生了得，连忙下了一个。结果却大失所望，还来就是一个PE。
我以为太玄妙，我等粗陋之人是搞不懂的。忙“百度”一下。找到这一篇才大悟：
One of the new administrative tools Windows Vista Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc. At first, the name might fool you into thinking the type of discs system manufacturers provide to you when you purchase a new computer to restore your computer to a factory state, but this is not that. A more appropriate name would be “Windows repair disc”.
To be blunt, this tool creates merely a slimmed-down Windows installation disc. It takes a normal Windows installation disc image and strips out all the “installation” functionality leaving only the repair tools and common system files.
What a lot of people don’t know (or need to know) is that their Windows Vista DVDs are in fact running Windows PE, an extremely lightweight version of Windows that can be booted from removable media for the purpose of system maintenance. Up until now, creating a Windows PE image was not an easy task. This tool basically simplifies it down to just two clicks.
You can find the tool in the “Start menu” > “All programs” > “Maintenance” > “Create a Recovery Disc”. You will need either a blank CD or DVD along with your original Windows installation disc. It will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.
If you boot this CD/DVD, it will look identical to your Windows installation disc. You will be asked to choose a language and even present you the “Install now” button. If you do decide to go on, you won’t get very far before an error stops you.
To enter the Windows Recovery Environment, click the “Repair your computer” link at the bottom of the welcome screen and select the Windows partition you wish to repair. After this, it will present you with a list of options including startup repair, system restore and command prompt. This is identical to the repair screen you would see in your installation disk. From here, you can even do a literally last-minute backup by sticking in a USB flash drive and copy documents across. Because it runs Windows, most USB drivers are available and it’ll work out of the box.
Because this is not an actual Windows install disk, it only takes up a few hundred MBs to fit on a CD, and you are free to make as many copies as you like and even share it with others. It’ll be even better if you can create a bootable USB version.
大意是说VISTA SP1提供了“创建一个恢复盘”这样的功能。你要是愿意，随时可以自己做一个。
具体的位置是：
开始》所有程序》维护》创建一个恢复盘
然后按提示放一个白盘进去就可以了。
这个盘准确的说是一个“修复盘”而非“恢复盘”，它有安装盘除安装之外的所有功能，为你提供一个简单干净的修复环境。
也就是说，你有安装盘，那么完全没必要去下载和刻录一个“Vista Recovery Disc”，这东西是微软官方提供的不假，但是根本没有传闻中的种种神奇功能。它有的功能，安装盘全有了。
引用英文原文：
http://www.windowsvistaplace.com/vista-sp1-create-a-recovery-disc/windows/
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本帖最后由 momotolo 于 2008-3-29 00:02 编辑 ]
