content: Want to backup Recovery Partition on Win7 I want to backup/copy the recovery partition on a Win7 machine. In case of a harddisk failure, I want to be able to replace the harddrive and then use the recovery data to re-install the version that came with my machine (I have the product key). I have seen EaseUS (another site called it EasUS), a free partition manager, online and wanted to know if anyone has used it.  Also, even though I have "view hidden files and folders" enabled, the recovery partition does not display. Would appreciate any knowledge anyone has on this scenario.