Almost all netbooks now come with a recovery partition. Although most people say that backup to an external hardrive is impossible, I have found a way. I have only gtried this on the backup partition of the Acer Aspire One, which cannot be backed up to a cd. This guide should work with other computer models too, but success is far from guaranteed.
First, you need an external HD, obviously the HD must be larger than your restore partition.
In Windows you must go to “Control Panel” in the Start Menu. From there you need to press “Switch to Classic View” on the upper left side of the screen. (If it says “Switch to Category View, then you are already in classic view) Double click on “Folder Options” Then go to the “View” tab.
From here you should see a switch that says “Do Not Show Hidden Files” and “Show Hidden Files”, click “Show Hidden Files”
If you cannot access your recovery partition, then download and install the Ext2ifs Then go to Control Panel, and in Classic View, find “IFS Drives” In the window assign a letter to the recovery partition.
Ok, now this part should be pretty easy. In my computer, simply drag and drop all of the files in your recovery partition over to an external HD. And YES ALL OF THEM!
Now this is the confusing part, you need to install grub, if you have linux, then this should be easy, otherwise it could be a bit challenging. To install grub refer to my previous post right here The menu.lst file is already edited to fit this need.
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