Recovery disc problem,

[bawldiggle]

My laptop's DVD/CD drive will not write anything and sometimes will not read either.
- I have tried a CD/DVD drive cleaner without success

Q1: Is it possible to make a recovery media on a USB stick ?

One option I have is to buy an external DVD/CD drive but some (cheap) devices do not write DVDs but will write CDs
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Q2: If so what capacity USB stick would I need for 32bit Win7 Home Premium?
Q3: And how would I make the recovery USB-media ?
- a tutorial would be appreciated, specifically applying to USB stick

Thank you?

 

[bawldiggle]

I want to do a clean OS install on the same laptop.

 

[Digital Life]

Q1: Is it possible to make a recovery media on a USB stick ?

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Yes you can

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Q2: If so what capacity USB stick would I need for 32bit Win7 Home Premium?

I think a 4 gig drive will do

Q3: And how would I make the recovery USB-media ?
- a tutorial would be appreciated, specifically applying to USB stick

This site has a download tool for many versions of Windows
https://heidoc.net/joomla/technolog...icrosoft-windows-and-office-iso-download-tool


This tutorial from SevenForums should help to.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

 

[it0uchpods]

Hi,

Q1: Rufus works very well.

Q2: 4GB USB Drivers work perfectly.

Q3: Do you have an ISO yet? If you do, run Rufus, use Create Bootable disk using: ISO Image, then press the button to the right, select your ISO. Then press Start. The USB will be create automatically.

Hope this helped!

Josh

 

[bawldiggle]

@sml156
@it0uchpods

Thank you both for your responses

I have Win7 Ultimate Media ISO (from DigitalRiver days), configured as multi versions
- both x32 and x64 on standby for a rainy day.
- it isn't raining yet !

I have Rufus (and others): used for other ISOs

Toshiba "drivers" are a concern if I do a clean install using ISO Win 7
- and I have never done a clean install . . . I would like to learn using recovery media

Somehwere in GregRockers tutorial (on this forum) I think there might have been a do's and dont's for removing crud from Toshiba specifically.

If all else fails I will resort to the ISO, and then try and chase up drivers

For now I would like to use recovery media to build up my confidence, and then move on ...

Thank you for your well intentioned advice

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My health has been a challenge lately, sorry for the delay in replying

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
It's a desktop correct ?
Those are as easy as going to the manufactures website and use the snid (is what I use) which makes the search So much easier.
Tag is usually next to the activation key tag.

 

[DavidE]

Somehwere in GregRockers tutorial (on this forum) I think there might have been a do's and dont's for removing crud from Toshiba specifically.

Here is the link to gregrocker's tutorial:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html

I don't see specific notes for Toshiba in the tutorial.