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    Recovery disks on a flash drive?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by jarred1, Nov 28, 2011.

  1. jarred1

    jarred1 Newbie

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    I have pavilion g4 and I'm was going to make my recovery disks and saw that you could use a flash drive instead of using dvd's. My only concern is if I do have to set the computer back to factory default will I be able to use the flash dive to install everything or will I be better off making the 4 disks?

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    jarred1, Nov 28, 2011
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  2. dirtyfingers

    dirtyfingers Notebook Consultant

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    A flash drive will work just fine for this. Just make sure it is at least 16 gb. Dvd's are probably a little cheaper, but either way is fine.
     
    dirtyfingers, Nov 28, 2011
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    jarred1 Newbie

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    Thank you for your reply. I have the flash drive already, I just wanted to make sure this would work before I did the MSI thing.
     
    jarred1, Nov 28, 2011
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