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Creating a Rescue Disk for Dell XPS 8500 on a usb pen drive or on dvds. Is it possible?
I have just bought a DELL XPS 8500 desktop computer with WIndows 8. I have already created a Factory Backup on my dvds. Now I am trying to create a RESCUE DISK. When I am trying to create it the option given is to create on a 1tb external hard disk. I don’t want to create a RESCUE DISK on my 1tb external hard disk because it is a waste of space since only 9GB is needed. I would like to create a RESCUE Disk on 3 DVDs or on a 16GB pen drive.
I have updated the DELL BACKUP AND RECOVERY but the problem still persisted.
Is it possible to create a RESCUE DISK on DVDs or pen drives? If yes, how can I do that?
Thanks for your help in advance.
osprey4
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May 6th, 2013 18:00
Hi Shadow186,
I've got a system here I just tried with a 16GB flash drive. Same problem (asks for external drive). Plugged my 500GB Seagate and it works.
Let me ask around.
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May 6th, 2013 19:00
You can create a recovery drive using Windows 8.
Go to the Win8 start screen and type recovery drive. Click settings and then the top option create recovery drive. Insert a 1gb flash. Follow the prompts. Takes about 1min on my Area 51 system to make it. Uses 223mb of flash space but I do not have the recovery partition anymore, I deleted it.
I would assume if you use the Dell partition it would be much larger, whatever the size is for it. Pretty sure a 16gb would be enough using the native Win8 recovery.
You can also use a CD/DVD but I have never tried it. My opinion is to stick with the native Win8 recovery. Most things are saved to the cloud anyway with your Microsoft account and will be restored.
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May 7th, 2013 17:00
I actually use Acronis, so the program disc is my rescue disc.