Hi Terry - Which anti-vrius program are you using?

Try this; temporarily disable your AV and see if you can now create the system recovery disc.

You could also try running the system repair disc creator tool as Administrator: Go to Start>All Programs>Maintenance, expand the Maintenance folder, right click on "Create a System Repair Disc" and select "Run as Administrator".

Let us know.

Cheers... Jim

Yep, just so long as both operating systems are 32-bit or both are 64-bit. No problem.