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    How do i transfer Respawn DVD to USB Thumb drive?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by BigFatUglyOldGuy, Aug 25, 2009.

  1. BigFatUglyOldGuy

    BigFatUglyOldGuy Notebook Guru

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    How do i transfer Respawn DVD to USB Thumb drive? The DVD recovery is old fashion way old school stuff. Alienware should change from being old school to modern USB recovery thum drive.

    Does anyone know how to make a respawn USB Thumb Drive?
     
    BigFatUglyOldGuy, Aug 25, 2009
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  2. The_Moo™

    The_Moo™ Here we go again.....

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    you need to make a image of the disc and them get a usb drive then burn that image onto the thumb drive and make it bootable


    i may be wrong :p
     
    The_Moo™, Aug 25, 2009
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  3. kilthro

    kilthro Floating in Space

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    You need to extract the boot image from the CD/DVD first, and then write the boot image that you’ve extracted to the USB flash drive.

    There are programs that do this.

    For example
    BBIE
    http://www.nu2.nu/bbie/

    - Extract boot image from CD/DVD using BBIE by Bart Lagerweij
    Command to extract CD/DVD boot image using BBIE is “bbie D:” without the quotes and assuming D: is your CD/DVD drive.


    - Write the extracted boot image from CD/DVD to USB flash drive using MKBT by Bart Lagerweij
    Command to write boot image file to USB flash drive is “MKBT -x image1.bin e:” without the quotes. image1.bin is the filename of the boot image and e: is the drive letter of your USB flash drive.
     
    kilthro, Aug 25, 2009
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  4. benthedogtrainer

    benthedogtrainer Notebook Evangelist

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    yep thats what i did and it worked
     
    benthedogtrainer, Aug 25, 2009
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  5. BigFatUglyOldGuy

    BigFatUglyOldGuy Notebook Guru

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    ok thanks i'll give that a go soon
     
    BigFatUglyOldGuy, Aug 25, 2009
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