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    Create a Recovery Partition using Gigabyte Xpress Recovery 2

    System Recovery is a crucial process which cannot be ignored simply by depending on any third party devices. Companies do invest heavily on data protection and system restore. For larger enterprise, this is a big headache. Because once your system is down, the employee sits besides until it is up finally. So that is good waste of man power. A better alternative that many mid and large businesses are applying is keeping some secondary system vacant for such crises. So that the employee can be moved to that place for temporary period. But does that is a decent solution. Ignore big companies who can invest well and setup an IT department. For mid and small size business it is a complicated process. Many of us are not aware that Gigabyte offers you some powerful software that can help you to restore your system in instant click. We neglect this features which are powerful and come free when you buy a Gigabyte motherboard. One of them is Gigabyte Xpress Recovery 2. A new edition of Xpress Recovery module which help you to restore your system quickly and easily. The procedure for that is quiet simple.

    Gigabyte Xpress Recovery 2 provides you option to run a simple backup process. The restoration is done through one click. All you need to do is create a 10GB of higher extra space. This space will be occupied by Xpress Recovery. If your C Drive or Windows partition is much higher than you will need more space for the same. The process to create your own recovery partition is much easier. The process begins from installing Xpress Recovery in your system. Because it does not installed in your system by default. You have to add that through Gigabyte Driver CD. It is recommended to use the exact model of Drive disc that you receive with the board. There is certain version issue based on different module installed. Usually Gigabyte Xpress Recovery 2 supports many Gigabyte boards. So there are fewer things to worry about.

    Let’s begin with the process. First you have to create a primary partition to make a recovery space. This will not work on a logical drive. For that you can create a partition from Disk Management. Right click on My Computer > Manage > Disk Management. You can modify the partition settings here. If this process does not work out then there is another option. You can do that by using bootable Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 CD. Create minimum of 10GB space atleast. I had not yet tested this on an external drive. But I hope this works here. For that you need to ensure one thing, if the recovery partition is an external drive, then you cannot format it, neither can you make changes to current partition. Better stick with internal drives only. The file system used for recovery is NTFS. NTFS gives you a better and faster recovery process compared to FAT or FAT32. This is still used by some Recovery software. There is only 2 step process to create a recovery partition via this. Once you are done with the partition settings follow the below step:

    Step 1: Install Xpress Recovery 2:

    You can install Xpress Recovery 2 in two ways. First you can install that through Gigabyte Driver CD. You can find that under utility. If you cannot locate that then you can download it from Gigabyte website. Click the link below to download Xpress Recovery 2. You will get an iso file which has to burn in a CD. This bootable disc then will be used to restore your systems image file stored in your drive.

    Gigabyte Xpress Recovery 2 Download

    Step 2: Create a Recovery Partition:

    Once you are done with setup of Xpress Recovery 2 it is the time to create a partition now. The above link will give you an iso file of Xpress Recovery. Burn that in cd and then boot from CD. For that you have to set the boot option in bios. This is one time process only. Once Xpress Recovery 2 is properly configured you can restore your system instantly using F9 key in future. Boot from the Xpress Recovery CD first and you can see a Gigabyte screen with following buttons - Restore, Backup, Remove and Boot. Restore button helps you to restore the system image file created. By default it is configured and you do not need to provide location. Backup button helps you to create a systems image file. This is a bit time consuming process and compulsory for the first time. Remove button remove the existing image file from your system.

    This will also help you to disable the Xpress Recovery option. And boot will take back you to your operating system. I would also like to add here about the limitation of this process. It is a reliable method but there are some limitations that make this tool less popular. First it does not work on logical drive. It needs a primary partition only. Second the backup image file is stored at the end of drive partition. To some extent this reduces the time of restoration. There is no way you can use an usb or external drive to create a system image files. If the file size is higher the more time it takes to create a recovery image file.

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    Re: Create a Recovery Partition using Gigabyte Xpress Recovery 2

    I had used this and it is still configured. It is not complicated to create a recovery partition. It is better if we can use regular software that comes with motherboard instead of third party. This is more reliable. I had used ghost for long time, but the restoration time is higher in that. The process is quick if you restore your systems image file from partition to partition.

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