How to make a system recovery disk on a SD-card

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jds63 said:

Not going to be able to boot from a SD card, why i suggest a USB Flash Drive. Certainly can not boot from a factory recovery partition on a separate device it was copied to.
Need to make discs from it be your best bet, get yourself an otg cable. Do not know how to extract that factory recovery partition, some software can do it or i believe diskpart maybe.

Would it be possible to make a recovery disk of a SD card, and if needed copy it to an USB? Or does the recovery disk have to be made on the media it is going to be used from?
I don't mind not getting a factory reset, Windows can make its own recovery disks, correct?

1993matias said:

Would it be possible to make a recovery disk of a SD card, and if needed copy it to an USB? Or does the recovery disk have to be made on the media it is going to be used from?
I don't mind not getting a factory reset, Windows can make its own recovery disks, correct?

Going to have to boot from it, never seen option to boot from an SD card yet in a BIOS. Think you trying to say copy contents to a SD then transfer to a USB ? Chances after Windows 10 upgrade you might not be able to access this factory partition to even make recovery discs unless went back to original OS, some systems have an app to make the discs do you still see it on this tablet ?

jds63 said:

Going to have to boot from it, never seen option to boot from an SD card yet in a BIOS. Think you trying to say copy contents to a SD then transfer to a USB ?

Yes, that was my idea. Is it possible? Or too convoluted?

jds63 said:

Chances after Windows 10 upgrade you might not be able to access this factory partition to even make recovery discs unless went back to original OS, some systems have an app to make the discs do you still see it on this tablet ?

I removed most Lenovo apps after upgrading due to lack of space. Doesn't Windows have a native way to make recovery disks?

Using tablet now, if so open up Disk Management and under that drive do you see this factory partition listed under C:
Right click the start menu and select it there,Disk Management

1993matias said:

Yes, that was my idea. Is it possible? Or too convoluted?
Do not feel it is possible to boot from it.
I removed most Lenovo apps after upgrading due to lack of space. Doesn't Windows have a native way to make recovery disks?

If still did not use Disk Cleanup, and did not do a reset your old OS is still there, but if it's been 30 days since, bound to Win 10 unless made a system image or had install media and if partition will work.

All things to think of before you went ahead an upgraded, needed to be backed up, those discs should of been made on day 1 of buying the tablet.

My harddisk (disc 0) is 29 GB, partitioned in four:
260 MB to EFI system partition
21.52 GB to drive C:
450 MB to recovery partition
6.78 GB to recovery partition

All except C: show 0% usage (100% free space), including the recovery partitions. No partition has any name.

jds63 said:

If still did not use Disk Cleanup, and did not do a reset your old OS is still there, but if it's been 30 days since, bound to Win 10 unless made a system image or had install media and if partition will work.

I understand. My intention would be to reset to Windows 10 if things went wrong, not to reset to factory standards.

Hi,

All except C: show 0% usage (100% free space)

Or so it seems from Disk Management but they're not empty.
If the OEM partition contains the W8.1 factory recovery and the restore utilities have been uninstalled then it is rendered useless anyhow.


Cheers,

fdegrove said:

Hi,



Or so it seems from Disk Management but they're not empty.
If the OEM partition contains the W8.1 factory recovery and the restore utilities have been uninstalled then it is rendered useless anyhow.


Cheers,

What i had mentioned to, is utility there still to even do this.