No luck with the linux backup.  There were 2 backup programs already installed.  One only backed up your own files, music and such, since I already deleted these and am going to access them from my network or cloud, this wasn't useful.  

The other one when I clicked on it, it said it needed to be stated before I could use it, thats what I thought I was doing.  

Linux users will probably think I am an idiot for not knowing that you open a terminal and type some command line stuff first before going to the gui.

Didn't have any luck with getting a W7 recovery iso made either.  I tried getting the iso from torrents as some sites suggested.  No luck getting anything downloaded, just lots of popups and redirects, may as well of done a search for porn and viruses.

Hope to burn a disk then rip it off of the disk and onto a usb drive.  Two of the methods I checked said you may not need the disk.