On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Peter van Hoof wrote: > My wife's computer had the same thing (not a dell though) and there where actually > three ways to make more recovery discs > -check the verify option when making the discs and open the drive during the verify > operation. It would consider the operation a failure and would work a second time. This makes sensebut I already made one set of disks. > -do a restore from the recovery partition this would also reset the count Have you tried this? I will only try this until Vista crashes. My wife is using the notebook. I just checked my Desktop XP installation and it was dated May 1 2005. So I have not really reinstalled it for nearlly 3 years. In the Windows 98 (even with 98SE) time, I would probably reinstall Windows every 6 months or one year. > -do a simple copy of the dvd's Good idea, I will try this option. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist