dcisive: thank you for your reply.I agree with you with respect to the image to a large drive, that's exactly what I do with my Desktop and working stations after all my applications are installed. But that's a lot of space and HDEverybody has a diff...

I just got a G55VW laptop, with Windows 8 64B installed, but I can't find out the utility to create the AI Recovery discs. Trying to reboot and pressing f9 doesn't get me to any utility to create any type of recovery discs.I already spent 3 days look...