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    No USB, No CD...how to make ISO of recovery?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by wonderba, Aug 11, 2011.

  1. wonderba

    wonderba Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just got my X220 Tablet and was looking at making a recovery disk through the tool found in Thinkvantage Toolbox. Is there a way to make the disk as an ISO file stored on my laptop's hard drive?
    Thanks
     
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    You can hook up a USB drive and make an image via Acronis...but if you have USB you can create a USB recovery image. Or you can buy an USB optical drive and make physical recovery discs (external optical drives are cheap, ~40-50 bucks).
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Aug 11, 2011
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  3. lenardg

    lenardg Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Your best bet is to follow Tsunades advice on how to create the restore media using Lenovo tools. That will of course restore only to a factory state. Windows 7 is also able to make disk image backups of the system drive (or other drives). Unlike Vista, in Windows 7 the system image feature should be available to all editions of Windows.

    Type "backup" into the start menu, select Backup and Restore from the possibilities.

    On the left side panel you should see the item "Create a system image".

    Might not be as advanced as Acronis (or another dedicated image creation tool), but gets the job done.
     
    lenardg, Aug 11, 2011
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