Not clear what you are asking. System images cannot be on a memory stick. It must be on an external or separate second hard drive. The memory stick will be the boot drive to get to the system image on an external hard drive if you cannot boot the computer normally. Make a system image whenever you make any big changes to the computer as long as you tested that the computer is working perfectly. Each system image overwrites the previous one if it is saved to the same hard drive.
To access System Image search for Recovery in Control Panel and select File History. It is in the lower left corner of the File History page. The File History backups if you want to use make them can be on the same separate hard drive as the system image and copies of other files can be stored there too. Backups cannot always be read by diff operating systems, but copies will always be available. Important-- the flash drive or memory stick will be wiped clean before making a bootable drive. Be very careful not to select a hard drive as a repair or recovery boot disk. It will wipe out the whole drive. 16GB or larger is fine for a restore/repair bootable memory stick. Make sure to test booting to it to make sure it works. Cancel out before restoring.
Mary G
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March 11th, 2015 14:00
Not clear what you are asking. System images cannot be on a memory stick. It must be on an external or separate second hard drive. The memory stick will be the boot drive to get to the system image on an external hard drive if you cannot boot the computer normally. Make a system image whenever you make any big changes to the computer as long as you tested that the computer is working perfectly. Each system image overwrites the previous one if it is saved to the same hard drive.
To access System Image search for Recovery in Control Panel and select File History. It is in the lower left corner of the File History page. The File History backups if you want to use make them can be on the same separate hard drive as the system image and copies of other files can be stored there too. Backups cannot always be read by diff operating systems, but copies will always be available. Important-- the flash drive or memory stick will be wiped clean before making a bootable drive. Be very careful not to select a hard drive as a repair or recovery boot disk. It will wipe out the whole drive. 16GB or larger is fine for a restore/repair bootable memory stick. Make sure to test booting to it to make sure it works. Cancel out before restoring.
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March 12th, 2015 15:00
You can do all of that with DBAR 1.7
Dell Backup and Recovery Basic comes preloaded on new Dell Windows 7 and Windows 8 devices and offers the following features:
Create reinstall disks (rescue disks) for your device
Reset your device to the original factory state
Manually back up and restore your data
http://www.dellbackupandrecovery.com/en-us/Index.html
16 gig stick would allow Factory image.
128 Gig stick would allow whole backups providing you buy the premium version.