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I have a USB HDD for my laptop (About 1TB). If worse comes to worse, is it possible to restore from System Image that I create on that USB HDD, or does it have to be a USB flash drive?
 

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Skeet1983,

As for a system Restore point I believe that is only able to be stored locally on the drive it is resorting.

Although you have a few other options that you could use your External Hard drive for example creating a system image on your external drive:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/8956-system-image-create-windows-8-a.html


So you can keep restore points on your C: drive and then have a system image on your external drive. This will give a better layer of redundancy.

Hope that helps,

Cheers,
Harry
 

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And yes you can restore from a system image on HDD - it doesn't have to be a flash drive. It is probably a good idea to test it before you need to use it to make sure it works. If you have a few hours make a system image and then restore to it.
 

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Skeet1983 said:
I have a USB HDD for my laptop (About 1TB). If worse comes to worse, is it possible to restore from System Image that I create on that USB HDD, or does it have to be a USB flash drive?
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YES & NO.

You can have System Image on the USB HDD, but you will need a USB flash boot drive to boot up to restore the System Image.
 

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theog said:
Skeet1983 said:
I have a USB HDD for my laptop (About 1TB). If worse comes to worse, is it possible to restore from System Image that I create on that USB HDD, or does it have to be a USB flash drive?
Click to expand...

YES & NO.

You can have System Image on the USB HDD, but you will need a USB flash boot drive to boot up to restore the System Image.
Click to expand...

Ok, thank you. Is the USB Boot Drive the same as the Recovery Drive that can be created? How would I go about doing this? A post above said to create System Image on the USB HDD and also need a USB Boot drive.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Sager NP9377
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-4810MQ @ 2.80GHz, 2.80GHz
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    2 Nvidia GeForce GTX 870M's 6GB each in SLI
    Screen Resolution
    1920*1080
    Hard Drives
    256GB SSD, 2 1TB HDDs
How do I create a USB Boot Drive?

Lets say my computer has nothing on it (No OS, drivers, etc). How would I get it to working condition? I know I need to have a System Image, but have no idea how to create the USB Boot drive...
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Sager NP9377
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-4810MQ @ 2.80GHz, 2.80GHz
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    2 Nvidia GeForce GTX 870M's 6GB each in SLI
    Screen Resolution
    1920*1080
    Hard Drives
    256GB SSD, 2 1TB HDDs

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Sager NP9377
    CPU
    Intel Core i7-4810MQ @ 2.80GHz, 2.80GHz
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    2 Nvidia GeForce GTX 870M's 6GB each in SLI
    Screen Resolution
    1920*1080
    Hard Drives
    256GB SSD, 2 1TB HDDs
theog said:
Windows System Image or
David Bailey post in
http://www.eightforums.com/installa...dows-8-1-ssd-help-requested-3.html#post349090
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Skeet1983 said:
How do I create a USB Boot Drive?

Lets say my computer has nothing on it (No OS, drivers, etc). How would I get it to working condition? I know I need to have a System Image, but have no idea how to create the USB Boot drive...
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For Windows System Image:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/8956-system-image-create-windows-8-a.html

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5132-recovery-drive-create-usb-flash-drive-windows-8-a.html
without the Recovery partition copy.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorial...overy-restore-image-computer-windows-8-a.html

or

David Bailey post 21 in
http://www.eightforums.com/installa...dows-8-1-ssd-help-requested-3.html#post349090

1) Download the app from the link in the post.

2) Make the Recovery disk using the winPE5 version.

Capture M002.PNG

or

I would recommend you making the OEM manufacturer's Recovery DVD's or USB drive.
or
You can order the Microsoft official OEM Recovery disks from the OEM manufacturer's website.
How to in post 6
http://www.eightforums.com/installa...indows-8-1-ssd-help-requested.html#post348950
 

My Computer

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  • OS
    ME, XP,Vista,Win7,Win8,Win8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Other Info
    Notebooks x 3

    Desktops x 5

    Towers x 4
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