Leo Laporte recommends SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
A full backup of the drive on which Windows is installed and an ASR floppy disk on which information that will help Windows use Automated System Recovery is stored
Full recovery takes about three weeks but hearing should improve immediately
Full recovery of a tracheostomy is about two weeks.
The recovery time for the ATP-PC system is...
If muscle atrophy occurred because the condition went untreated for a significant period of time, full recovery is unlikely. If no permanent damage resulted, then full recovery would be expected.
Full recovery may be seen in four to six weeks
Gateway recovery disks are created for use as a backup to a Gateway System Recovery solution. Gateway System Recovery involves creating a partitioned area of the hard drive in which vital system programs are stored. In case the partitioned area becomes corrupted or inaccessible, a recovery disk can be used to reload the software necessary to restore the system.
system image recovery
Recovery point objective
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Recovery point objective
Vista does not come with Automated System Recovery Disks, but it does have a utility for a user to create them.