CD/DVD & system image restore

[lewishilary]

I have been tearing my hair out trying  to find a solution to HP not including CD/DVD drive and MS requiring a CD/DVD for restoring a system image.

After trying suggestions from experts that did not work, I found the following which does work, well it did for me: 

https://www.ubackup.com/windows-10/restore-windows-10-from-usb.html#H3-1

[praveen196]

@lewishilary Welcome to HP Community!

I understand that you are unable to perform system restore.

In that case, you will have to order a recovery media: Click here for steps.

Or you may also attempt to download the same using the steps on this link: click here

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