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Dell Backup and Recovery (Premium) Ver 1.6.2.4 Can I Use a USB Pen (8GB) to Create a Rescue Disk
I wish to create a Rescue Disk using Dell Backup and Recovery can I use a USB Flash Drive to do this?
DELL-David F
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February 28th, 2014 08:00
Hello,
I am the Lead Quality Engineer for Dell Dell Backup and Recovery. While it is possible to create a Rescue Disk on a Flash drive, you would need a USB Key of over 100GB and it would have to be 'Windows 8 Certified'. Microsoft changed the way USB keys are handled in Windows 8.1, the end result being that only 'Certified' keys can be partitioned (necessry for a rescue disk). I would recommend an External HDD for this function. You can certainly backup your factory image or create OS media (Reinstall Disks) on a USB key.
Hope this helps!
DELL-David F
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March 3rd, 2014 08:00
Yes, you can put your system backups (scheduled or otherwise) on the same drive after the rescue disk has been created. In the current version, rescue disk creation will format the drive (so make sure it doesn't contain anything you want to keep!), you can then use that drive as the destination for your system backups (and anything else you want to put on it).
The next version of the software (release TBD) will not require that the external HDD be formatted during this operation.
Thanks, and hope this helps.
fifda
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February 19th, 2014 19:00
Yes, I think you can!
JohnWR1
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February 20th, 2014 00:00
fifda
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February 20th, 2014 18:00
You said the Software is
Dell Backup and Recovery (Premium) Ver 1.6.2.4 ?
What about the Windows built-in backup tool? Or some third-party software? I think you can some freeware like Aomei Backupper(http://www.backup-utility.com/) and so on.
JohnWR1
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March 3rd, 2014 02:00
JohnWR1
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March 4th, 2014 00:00