SOLVED Create Windows 7 Recovery Disc on USB Stick

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Hi folks

A friend of mine has a Acer mini PC which doesn't have a DVD drive only USB ports. It occurred to me that if things went wrong it would be difficult to troubleshoot. I would like to create a recovery disk on a USB Stick. Windows will only create to a DVD drive. It would be for Windows 7 Home Premium.

Apologies if this has be posted before...

Martyn
 
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A recovery disk or a copy of the W7 Home Premium ISO? Because Microsoft has a tool to put the ISO on a USB stick and make it bootable. A recovery disk is pretty generic. Is it something Acer software allows you to create? Or how are you trying to create it?
 

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a windows installation ISO can be used to boot the computer and repair an installation and there is a microsoft program to install THAT on a USB flash drive
 
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Yes you are correct and I have now managed to do that using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool.
 

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