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Asus recovery disc question

by Nov 5, 2012 11:15AM PST

Hi I just restored my asus u56e bal7 to factory state using my recovery discs and it worked smoothly. My question is: can I use the same discs again to back up my laptop in the future, or do I need to make the recovery discs again?

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Not exactly.
by Former Forum moderator Nov 5, 2012 12:35PM PST

You can use these again to restore the company. I can't guess why you wrote back up.

However some folk forget to duplicate these dvds for the day they need the spare copy. While some balk at that, at least save an image of them with ImgBurn.

Tutorial link follows -> http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=screenshots#isoread

It's so easy that they only supply a screenshot.
Bob

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Basically
by Nov 5, 2012 1:36PM PST

Basically, the discs should work indefinitely... Until they wear out, physically, from use. There's no set number of uses however. If you take very good care of the discs,you could restore your computer every single day for years.

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