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Dell OS Recovery Tool using External Hard Drives
Is there a way to burn OS into an external hard drive instead of USB flash drives? In my company I'd rather use old hard drives that I plug into a SATA to USB adapter rather than USB flash drives. Unfortunately Dell OS Recovery Tool does not detect external drives using SATA to USB adapters. Is there a way we can enable this in a future update?
Additional info:
This is actually possible in Windows 7 since SATA to USB adapters are installed as "USB Mass Storage" but in Windows 10, it is installed as "USB attached SCSI", which Dell OS Recovery Tool does NOT detect.
Thanks,
Bryan
DELL-Jesse L
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September 28th, 2018 09:00
The Dell article, How to Download and Use the Dell Operating System Recovery Image in Microsoft Windows" specifies that USB is the only option that Dell supports.
bryanrobinson_03
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September 28th, 2018 10:00
I hope that this becomes a feature someday since I didn't want to throw these old hard drives away.
-Bryan
speedstep
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September 28th, 2018 11:00
" burn OS into an external hard drive instead of USB flash drives" yes its called windows 2 go for Enterprise version of windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZJpzPvqtk
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April 11th, 2019 05:00
I feel the need to 2nd bryanrobinson_03 suggestion.
We recently bought 40 AIOs with spinning discs in them. It is agony getting the Windows Updates for them. However, I can make a USB drive with the Recovery software and load it on to an SSD that I install in the machine. It would be great to install the Recovery files directly on to the SSD and be done with it.
If I could be so bold to expand on his suggestion, given my 40 machines all have Windows 10, the Recovery software forces me to download Windows 10 40 times with each different service tag. I would love the option to just download it once, and have the Recovery Tool bake in the service tag to the same ISO file.
Finally, if the recovery tool isn't going to recognize an external HD, then could I be able to find where it got downloaded to, and copy it to the SSD with my own software (Something like Macrium).
Thank you so much for listening, I hope some more power with this tool becomes available.