![]() ![]() I’m guessing you could do the disk formatting and partitioning outside of the SRD session, but this way makes it possible for those who don’t have any live Windows installs. Thanks to this Symantec forum post for the solution! That’s it! Now, provided you can boot from a USB stick easily enough, you can boot the SRD straight from the USB drive. Now simply copy the contents of the SRD disc over to the USB stick root directory. select disk #, to select the usb disk (put the number you found in the previous step in place of the # – be absolutely certain you have the right number!).list disk, to find the drive number of your usb stick.Open a command line (under one of the menu options).Insert USB stick (may have to do this before booting SRD, depending on how your machine behaves).Boot the SRD disc on a machine that has an optical drive.But booting OSs from USB drives can be a real pain… Doing it for the SRD, though, is remarkably simple: Short of buying a USB external optical drive, how can this be done? The answer is to load the SRD onto a USB stick and boot from that. That means there’s no way to boot the System Recovery Disk (SRD) except via USB. ![]() My dilemma now, though, is that my new Dell Mini 9 doesn’t have an optical drive. It’s saved me countless hours/days of reinstalling Windows OSs. ![]()
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