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New 8.1 Computer With No Optical Drive.. Can DVD Recovery Sent convert to Flash USB?
I just purchased a new computer Windows 8.1 laptop that does not have an optical drive yet I was sent DVD recovery. Can the DVD disk be converted to a Flash USB?
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Wow thank you for asking. I have a separate DVD for Windows 8 drivers
So you have a regular Windows 8 disc AND another for vendor specific drivers?
The drivers one you can probably just straight copy the files to the flash drive since. I depends on the manufacturer and how they put it all together. What kind of computer is it?
The drivers one you can probably just straight copy the files to the flash drive since. I depends on the manufacturer and how they put it all together. What kind of computer is it?
Windows 8.x has it's own utility you can create a recovery USB stick from. First get a USB stick that is just slightly larger than your recovery partition is. Then open the control Panel, select "Recover", then "Create a Recovery Drive", then make sure you have checked the option "Copy the Recovery Partition from the PC to the Recovery Drive". That will create a bootable recovery USB stick or disk which you can use to repair the system. You don't need to do anything with the DVD's.
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It is a Sager laptop and they do NOT put a recovery on t partition on the drive thus my main inquiries,,
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I do not have a recovery partition on the computer as the company does not put one. I just have 2 DVD,, Windows restore and Drivers.
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noxcho, does the winsetupfromusb automatically determine if the recovery was made from DOS, Linux or Windows?
use an external dvd whenever required, save yourself the headache or you can do a custom usb image of your hard disk with all your software loaded just the way you like it, so that when you restore everything you use is already loaded
You can see it yourself when you open the ISO image with 7zip - see which file there are in the image.
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Noxcho.
Speaking to a computer repair person locally he could not understand why a company would not send a Flash drive with the restore and drives on it when the computer does not come with a DVD and additionally does NOT have a restore partition on the HDD/SDD.
My question to you folk here is this a normal practice with companies supplying new computers..i.e., not including a bootable Flash OR a restore partition when no optical drive is included on the machine?
These are what I see on the DVD so would the software you suggest work?
Data on restore disk
http://screencast.com/t/Ym2hk6E9YQJC
http://screencast.com/t/CD1FlpC27
http://screencast.com/t/XVgiHAcN
Speaking to a computer repair person locally he could not understand why a company would not send a Flash drive with the restore and drives on it when the computer does not come with a DVD and additionally does NOT have a restore partition on the HDD/SDD.
My question to you folk here is this a normal practice with companies supplying new computers..i.e., not including a bootable Flash OR a restore partition when no optical drive is included on the machine?
These are what I see on the DVD so would the software you suggest work?
Data on restore disk
http://screencast.com/t/Ym2hk6E9YQJC
http://screencast.com/t/CD1FlpC27
http://screencast.com/t/XVgiHAcN
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noxcho thank you.. I think in the case they do not supply an optical drive on the system that they should have a restore partition.
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