Making recovery disk =O
 

Recently I made a recovery disk (And I needed 18 CDs =O ) from a new PC I just got from Hp. It came with "HP PC recovery CD-DVD Creator", but the problem is, it only lets me make 1 full disk. What if I want to make 2nd disk just-incase, since I could damage it, loose one-of-eighteen, ect.

Seriously, don't use optical storage media for backups or recovery purposes. They're just too unreliable. Get an external harddrive instead. Besides, what's the point in creating 18 recovery discs?

I think that what he did was basically take a snapshot image of his system, and it spanned 18 discs.

So dude, pop one of the discs in and copy it with Nero, Alcohol 120%, or whatever happens to be your burning software of choice. Then repeat for each of your discs.

Though I do agree that optical media is so 1996 when you can get terrabyte Lacie external drives and whatnot.

I think a hard drive is much more unreliable than something that just sits in a case waiting to be used, especially if you use a good brand.

I remember my PC forcing (held me down, punched me a few times in the sack) me to do this when I got it, except it wasn't eighteen discs holy crap, it was like.. uh, seven or something. But yeah, just burn copies of them all. Should be a fun way to fill in time!

Honestly, I would say a better solution would be to purchase a program such as Ghost, then create an image of your entire HDD. At that point you can put it on an external drive, allowing you restore your entire drive state rather painlessly.