Can a recovery disk be mane for vista without doing a full backup?

The Recovery disks putting Vista back to Factory settings are made using the Computer Manufacturer's Recovery Process to do it.

Contact them for more information about it.

Vista's Complete PC backup, in certain Vista versions, does what it says.

A Recovery disk is Recovery to Factory Settings disk.

That is what you need to make from your Recovery Partition to put your Computer back to how you bought it.

Posters often get confused about RECOVERY disks and STARTUP Repair disks.

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If you wish to make a Vista Startup Repair disk, here is how to do it:

 Download the ISO file at the supplied link, and make a Bootable Startup Repair Disk from it.

Go into your Bios/Setup, or Boot Menu, at startup, and change the Boot Order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the Boot Order, then reboot with the disk in the Drive.

At startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, to go into Bios/Setup, or F12 for the Boot Menu.

When you have changed that, insert that Bootable Disk you have made in the Drive, and reboot.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html

Above link shows what the process looks like, and a how-to, as it loads to the Repair Options.

Neosmart contains the contents of the Windows Vista DVD's "recovery center," as we've come to refer to it. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows Vista, and just serves as a Windows PE interface to recovering your PC. Technically, one could re-create this installation media with freely-downloadable media from Microsoft (namely the Microsoft WAIK kit, a multi-gigabyte download); but it's damn-decent of Microsoft to make this available to Windows' users who might not be capable of creating such a thing on their own.

Read all info at the website about creating and using it:

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

ISO Burner:http://www.snapfiles.com/get/active-isoburner.html

It makes a very good Vista Startup Repair Disk.

You can do a Startup Repair, System Restore, etc from it.

It is NOT a reinstall disk.

And the 32bit is what comes normally on a computer, unless 64bits requested.

Cheers.

Hi,

Check with your System maker, their on-line documentation, and well as their forums (if any)
for specific information on the How and Requirements to make an OEM type Recovery Disk.

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This will help you make a Repair Disk which might be useful, see the explanations at the top
of the web page.

How to Create a Vista Recovery Disc (this is a Repair type Recovery Disk and not the same as
the OEM version your System maker would provide or have methods for you to create).
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/141820-create-recovery-disc.html

These might help though it does require a complete backup.

How to Restore the Complete Computer from a Complete Backup and Restore Image in Vista
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/99718-restore-complete-computer.html

How to Create a Complete Computer Backup and Restore Image in Vista
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/99709-backup-complete-computer.html

Hope this helps.