Convert 3 recovery dvd's into USB recovery flash drive

[Doug30]

Okay thats what I am leaning towards that it doesnt matter but to lean on the side of caution,  I wiil place the the respective disk "Preload" folder within the main folder. It seems to me that  I am missing a logical point on "order of installation " since the programmers had specifcally laid out for certain files to be installed at one  point  and the others at another.  I tried to load the 3 ISO onto a USB but failed, it wouldnt even lauch so I will get back to you in a couple days with the results  so if anyone else encounters a issue with Recovery DVD's they can use this post as reference.

[Doug30]

OKay so this is where I am at  with this, I loaded up the files on the USB and when I tried to run it,  nothing happened. Zilch.. I used  ISO Creator, reason being it allowed me to pull whatever files and turn into ISO. On my set, disk 1, I have outside of the preloads these files afe present

Boot - it appears to be files for different countries

EFI - Contain a boot & Microsoft files

Sources - boot.win file

Now I also labelled the Preloaded files Preload 1 and Preload 2  would that have caused any issues ?

Or should I go back to the drawing board and reload just the preloaded files and nothing else ? What  app would you recommend for creating ISO files? 

I tried the copy and paste too and got nowhere so either I shoudlnt have relabeled the files 1,2,3 or the ISO Creator either I missed something or it doesnt work? 

Any suggestions ? As I said the unit i up and running but if this can  help someone else then I am down for following thru on this.

Doug30

[Lil_Boy_Blue]

Hi

Unless it is an old OS like W7 I would not bother. I do not bother.

I just make an install DVD/USB from Microsoft and add the HP drivers as and when.

My recovery discs are for an OS of 3 years ago, and drivers equally, pretty useless really.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Single DVD does the job;

USB can be refreshed with driver updates and the latest OS.

Much quicker, cheaper and easier.

[WAWood]

@Doug30

I tried to tell you folks, days ago, that this would not work.

At least with the recovery set I have, the files are not designed to be combined onto a single USB stick -- and doing so, is not going to work.

Sometimes, when HP still has the Recovery Media in stock, they provide an option to purchase a USB stick instead of DVDs. If that option is not available, then you are stuck using the DVDs.

[Doug30]

Hi WaWoods !

Yes you did say that and I do value your insight & normally I would've taken your advise but I was fortunate enough to have repaired the 1 DVD I was having issues with by using chapstick and a blowdryer. Looks brand new and reads like it is. I wanted to at least give this a shot in the event I was successful not for me but for others who have and will find themselves in the same situation. Given your experience, what would you venture to say is the issue in placing all 3 disk on 1 USB ? I did leave each disk in its own file when loading rather than combining all "Preload" into 1 file, given each file has its own specfic instructions on executing.  I get what you're saying "individually," yet there has to be a stop of some sort that would prevent the next file( dsk) from loading. Each disk has code written to execute and allows back to back loading of the DVD's for recovery process, then could it be that each DVD requires it own boot process to execute but isn't that what the boot does ? I get the sneaky suspicion everything revolves on how the first disk is loaded & executed given that is where the Microsoft files are. I assume the Preloads are drivers. Toss me your thoughts on the idea, I hold the opinion if enough knowledge & understanding are gain - then we can prove it can be done.   We' re not rewriting the programmers code yet I have a USB Media Recovery on another H.P.  and just made another for my Dell Inspirion so if those two systems use  a Recovery USB then that's adequate demonstration it can be done.