Q:
My XPS M1210 laptop seems quite nice, its performance, in all, is kind of satisfactory after I restarted its DWM service. And recently it would stuck when playing music, later after I used Dell 32-bit system recovery disc to reinstall system, everything became OK. Besides, I downloaded the latest driver from website.
But there’s still one problem, Dell’s Vista laptop is a little different from other XP laptops, Vista’s recovery partition is hidden, it displays a 10G partition, why Dell chooses to put recovery partition on the fastest place? Now my question is whether I can burn the recovery partition to a standard 4.7G DVD, and boot from this DVD? Now before starting Vista, I could enter the content menu of the partition through F8 option, and then what partition software should I use to partition my disk? In Vista system, disk management is really terrible, you cannot filtrate material back and forth by the basic extension and zoom-out. I want to use PM8, but I am not sure whether it could work in Vista.
Hope to get your suggestion and help.

A:
1): First, if you burn it onto a DVD, then you cannot boot it. Secondly, you could use Magic Partition software to manage partitions on your disk. But BOOT error would often occur, so you’d be cautious about it.
2): The best method is to use Ghost to burn the backup of a system recovery disc, which means to burn all your disk contents into a mirror disc, and then you could solve the problem by saving the partition you need anytime.