VGN-TZ31 - copying an image of the recovery partition to create a bootable Vista installation disc

Hello all,



My first post on the forum so please be gentle



I've just bought a second-hand TZ31, complete with Vista Business.



I'd like to format the hard drive and install a fresh copy of Windows 7 on account of it's lower demand on system resources, general superiority to Vista and the fact that the supplied version of Vista also contains lots of unneccessary and and resource-hogging applications.



I've heard of people having problems with retaining all of the Vaio's functions under W7 (webcam, Wifi, fingerprint reader etc) so would like to make a copy of the Vista recovery partition before deleting it, just in case.



I've been trying to do this using ; I've managed to create an image of the partition (a .001 and a pbf file, which together are about the same size as the partition (c. 7Gb) but when trying to create a recovery / installation disc (or .iso) the output file appears to be only about 64Mb, which surely is far too small..



Firsty, am I correct in thinking that the recovery partition on the hard drive contains all the installation files for the OS and can be copied to DVD to create an installation disc that can be used to install a fresh copy of the OS onto the machine?



Secondly, assuming I can create an installation disc from the partition can anyone suggest where Im going wrong with the paragon software, or alternatively suggest an alternative piece of software to get the job done?



Thanks

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