Administrator Guide

Appendix B - Creating Bootable Media

Use this appendix to create bootable media.

Burning the Recovery Environment ISO to CD\DVD

The following link contains the process needed to use Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 to create a bootable CD

or DVD for the recovery environment.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/burn-a-cd-or-dvd-from-an-iso-file

Burning the Recovery Environment on Removable

Media

To create a bootable USB, us the following instructions:

Legacy boot:

1. Connect a USB drive to the system.

2. Open an administrative command prompt.

3. Enter the Diskpart utility by typing diskpart.

4. Find the target disk to modify by typing list disk. Disks will be designated by number.

5. Select the appropriate disk using the command select disk # where # is the disk number to corresponding drive indicated

by the previous step.

6. Wipe the disk by issuing a clean command. This will purge the drive of data by wiping the File Table.

7. Create a partition for the boot image to reside.

a. The create partition primary command generates a primary partition on the drive.

b. The select partition 1 command select the new partition.

c. Use the following command to quick format the drive with the NTFS file system: format FS=NTFS quick.

8. The drive must be marked as a bootable drive. Use the active command to mark the drive as bootable.

9. To move files directly to the drive, assign an available letter to the drive with the assign command.

10. The drive will automatically mount, and the contents of the ISO file can be copied to the root of the drive.

After the ISO contents have completely copied, the drive is bootable and can be used for recovery.

EUFI Boot: