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    USB bootable Imaging to usb drive

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Tonedeaf, Sep 1, 2011.

  1. Tonedeaf

    Tonedeaf Newbie

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    Hello all,

    I'm about to pull the trigger on the Thinkpad X220. I hear the Lenovo Enhanced experience adds an extra 2 hours of battery life (from 6-8 on a 6-cell, or so I hear), but nobody knows how to replicate the needed tweaks on a clean install.

    Enter this idea: After the laptop arrives, I uninstall as much bloatware as possible, get the setup just the way I like it, and create an image of the result.

    What I would really like to know is this: Can I create a bootable flash drive with an imaging software, and store the image on that same flash drive, and restore the image from said flash drive?

    Thank you in advance,
    Tonedeaf
     
    Tonedeaf, Sep 1, 2011
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  2. chimpanzee

    chimpanzee Notebook Virtuoso

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    this is what you can do:

    1. search on google to find out how to create a bootable Windows 7 install USB
    2. Create such a bootable USB drive on a BIG USB(32G+)
    3. this is a standard bootable NTFS drive
    4. use the W7 builtin backup software(assuming it is not disabled in OEM) and create the image onto the same drive

    then you can just restore using the DVD boot option via the standard W7 recovery option.
     
    chimpanzee, Sep 1, 2011
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