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How to make a system repair disc for a netbook
How to make a system repair disc for a netbook
- Is there a way to restore from a system image on a Netbook? I can easily store the system image on an external USB hard drive, but I don't know how to put the functions of a system repair disc onto an external USB drive. The netbook can boot from USB, but has no optical drive.
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- You can do a restore from an image by booting from your original boot media. On the first screen that appears you select 'Next', and on the second screen, instead of installing you select "repair".
You can then restore from the system image your created assuming the computer can access it.- Marked As Answer byRonnie VernonMVP, ModeratorSaturday, November 07, 2009 9:27 AM
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- Do you have an external DVD/CD drive? What I did is make a disk on 2 different PC's, 1 x86 and 1 x64 and burn them to disk then I have a 1 GB usb That is split in to 2 500 MB disks and made them bootable like you probably did with your Win7 stick and moved the files to the different partitions and then you can boot to them with F12 of what ever your Pc is and restore.
DrJ - You can do a restore from an image by booting from your original boot media. On the first screen that appears you select 'Next', and on the second screen, instead of installing you select "repair".
You can then restore from the system image your created assuming the computer can access it.- Marked As Answer byRonnie VernonMVP, ModeratorSaturday, November 07, 2009 9:27 AM
- Thanks for your replies.
Ronnie, it sounds like I don't have to have a "system repair disc" to restore an image. I originally booted and installed from my USB hard disk. First, I copied all the Win7 disk to the USB drive, then booted and installed from that.
If I boot from that again and have the image on the same partition, will the steps you described work?
Thanks,
Ken The restore needs access to the image during the restore and it needs a place to put the restore, if that place is the same place the image is located on, it will not be able to do so. You need the image to be on a different drive other than where the restored image will be going.
- Proposed As Answer byIDONNOIT Monday, November 09, 2009 1:07 PM
- I believe that it will be meeting those conditions:
Image and boot on the external USB drive.
Restore destination on the internal hard disk drive.
Ken This works when I image using ATI, tho I don’t recommend it because if the drive is totally dead your out of luck: Partition the drive into more than 1 partition, I keep “C” less than 40G, and use another partition or 2 for all storage. I normally keep all my BUs’ on another drive.
