Create Satellite A215-4747 Vista Recovery DVD

I want to create Vista recovery DVD, prior to upgrading to Windows 7.
How to do this?  Do these recovery DVD usually work when needed?  How to use recovery DVD if requiired?
Thanks for helping/

Satellite A215-S4747
Some models of that vintage came with a recovery partition and some did not. Take a look
   1.46GB partition and other small partition are for the System Recovery Options and the factory softw...
Let us know what you learn.
-Jerry

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    Message was edited by: shupachups

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    > Is that right?
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