Aspire 572PG can I make recovery media directly from the partition?
I have my daughter's Aspire V3-572PG-530Y laptop here stuck in the recovery loop running windows 10. The story is that the machine was running slow so she ran defrag but that didn't improve matters. The next day it still ran slow so she re-booted it and the battery went flat during boot-up, after which it got stuck in recovery loop.
I've tried most/all of the recovery options including restore point and re-install. Restore point 'failed' and re-installing from the recovery partition encountered a problem, went through 'undoing changes' then ended with a message saying that no changes were made.
In the recovery console I ran diskpart which reported four healthy partitions - system, recovery, push_button and something else. I ran CHKDSK which I left to run all night, in the morning it had about a screen and a half of bad cluster messages and one 'out of space' message, was still running in the morning but was apparently doing nothing at all so after a good while I quit that.
Where I'm at now is I have ordered a new 1TB HDD, an enclosure to put the old drive into the optical bay and I've downloaded windows 10. The reason I've got the new disk drive is 1. I want to preserve as much as possible of her user data and 2. given the reports of bad clusters and that it was running poorly I am suspicious of the old 1TB drive. My plan is to install windows 10 along with the driver package from the support site, then attempt to recover as much of her data. I'd also like to make the factory restore discs which I think is stored in an image on the original HDD's recovery partition. Is this possible? Is it even necessary/worthwhile?
Pete
