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Pavilion g6
Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

How can I transfer my notebook Pavilion g6 window 8 Recovery Image(DVD) to a Pendrive? Since I have accidentally deleted my recovery Partition besides.

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@BennLh 

Whether or not that will work depends critically on WHAT is on the DVD.

 

A Windows install image fits on a DVD because it is compressed, that can  only be used to install or reinstall Windows.

 

An HP Recovery Image that is the same thing as the Recovery Media takes a set of DVDs, typically 3, so that does not fit onto a single DVD.

 

If all the DVD has on it is the HP Recovery Manager, you will not be able to recover using that because that requires the HP Recovery partition to be intact.

 

So, the first thing to do is insert the DVD in a working PC and find out what is on it -- and report that back here.



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Total number DVD of a Recovery Image is 6. All the DVDs work perfectly fine, through which I could easily restore system to the earlier status/at the time of buying the laptop. However, to keep safe of the recovery DVDs, I wanted to clone/replicate this total six Dvds into 32gb pendrive (creat recovery media in USB). 

(A)I have a recovery media(DVD) that works perfectly fine,

(B) after transferred of window OS from HDD to an SSD, without copying Recovery Partition I have formatted the HDD. However, systems works fine as of now.

(C) since I have lost my recovery Partition, I couldn't recreate a recovery image/media in a USB pendrive with using ho utility tools system recovery.

As it is difficult to keep safe/Carry all these DVDs recovery media , I would like to clone/copy/transfer to a 32 gb pendrive.

 

 

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@BennLh 

As far as I know -- you can't do that -- transfer all the recovery files on the DVDs to a single USB stick.

 

Why?

 

Because in the recover sets I have seen, the filenames are the same on the DVDs.  So, if you copy files from the DVDs to a USB stick, the files with the same name will keep getting overwritten -- and you'll end up with only the last files.



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