Thinkpads Forum

Hello,

i'm considering burning recovery media that shall be able to restore the hard drive to the state it was in when the notebook came from the factory. I need to do that with a ThinkPad that doesn't have its own built-in optical drive. Does anyone here know whether it's possible to burn recovery media over the network, i.e. use another ThinkPad's optical drive? Or do i have to get an external DVD burner that connects to the notebook by USB?
Thanks in advance - TTY

Try KernSafe TotalMounter. It presents a virtual CD/DVD burner to Windows, and anything you "burn" to it comes out as .iso files. You can then transfer the iso files to another computer and burn them to disk there.

Thank you.

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That will allow making recovery media .isos locally and storing them for future use.

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Has Lenovo updated their recovery media software lately? My X1 Carbon allowed me to create recovery media straight to flash drives.