make second set of recovery media?

I'm not sure if this is possible at all, I couldn't find anything, but what I want to do is to create a second set of backup media.
I made one on DVD's as soon as I got my CF-19, but I want to do it again, but this time do it on an USB-stick as that is much more convenient, portable and much, much faster.
So is there a way to make a second set of backup media?

search didn't help me, just found: order back-up DVD's as an answer to peoplew who needed recovery media and didn't have anything at all.

 

so....you want to make bootable usb stick, and put the recovery disks on it?

1 format the drive, set the boot flag
2 you'll need to make an iso of the first disk and then extract/copy the boot image of that iso to the drive.
3 then copy the first disk contents over from the disk to the drive
4 then copy over the .img (pqs, or whatever format) files used by the recovery software to the drive as well

Hope it helps. I don't know about the cf-19 recovery disks in particular, but these instructions should work for most recovery software. I've done this with dvd's before; condensing multiple disks to 1.

 

And.....Just how many discs do you have? Do you mean 1 for W7 and one for XP?

 

IF, thanks for the tips, I'm going to try to find out how to do that.

@Toyo, I have 6 disks just for 7. I haven't got any disks for XP, didn't find them either in the Panasonic recovery program or elsewhere.

 

Wow, 6 discs. All the other 19's and 30's I've seen only have 1 DVD for each OS, even the 30 Mk3 with Win 7.

Here's the latest on XP from Panasonic USA:

To Our Valued Customers,

In compliance with Microsoft® requirements, effective October 22 2010, Panasonic can no longer ship
computers with a Windows® XP recovery DVD. However, any remaining Toughbook® PCs in the reseller
channel with Windows XP backup image DVDs, may continue to be sold while supplies last.
For customers with Windows XP downgrade models, Windows XP backup images may be obtained for a $35
administration, shipping & handling fee at Panasonic Toughbook Computers Support & Assistance. Due to Microsoft
restrictions, ONLY XP downgrade models are eligible to receive the Windows XP backup image. (A single
recovery DVD can be used to restore multiple machines of the same model.) Customers who purchased a unit
with Windows 7 preinstalled but who now desire to run Windows XP on that unit will be required to create their
own Windows XP image utilizing drivers that Panasonic provides for that propose – however, Panasonic is not
permitted to provide these users a Windows XP backup image DVD.
In addition, since October 22 2010, XP downgrade models (units loaded with Windows XP), may only be sold
into the distribution channel if the channel provides Panasonic with the relevant end user data for each order.
Panasonic is permitted to sell XP downgrade model until 2014. Please contact your Area Sales Manager to
discuss the requirements to setup and purchase a XP downgrade model.
Any Panasonic Toughbook laptop purchased with Windows XP or Windows XP downgrade right (Windows 7 or
Vista Certificate of Authenticity) may continue to be used with the XP operating system for as long as the
customer chooses; however, Microsoft will discontinue Windows XP support after April 14, 2014.

Panasonic Solutions Company
November 2011

 

Link dead but here it is in PDF. ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/panasonic/toughbook/Support/PSC_Windows_XP_Availability.pdf

 

Okay, if you're running win 7 on a CF-19, why don't you just save the current IMAGE? If you burn the current image, you don't have to re-install all of those disk's. I do an image burn once a month as well as dailey backups of general stuff. If I get a new hard drive, I just burn the image, re-allocate the hard drive space, and voila, my computer is back up and running in less than an hour.... Look into burning the image from your backup settings in Win 7. Hope this helps.....

 

A disk image is definitely the way to do things. I use acronis to do my
images. Just make a bootable image on the USB drive.

 

Thanks for the suggestions! I now got my hands on a SSD and made a clone via USB in 1h45 of the complete disk, including the 300Mb and the 55Gb recovery partitions. That might be a good solution for the future as well.

How big would an image be?

 

A cloned image will be exactly the same size as the source disk.
CAP

 

Just a short update:
I ordered the recovery disks from Panasonic, and that where only 3DVD's.
At closer inspection it turned out to be 3 DL-DVD's, so it's still 6 DVD's in total.
I'm now trying to copy them to a 32Gb stick and see if that works.