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Chromebook recovery utility cut the disc into small pieces
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2021 11:50 pm
by nolokon
Hello!
I have Thinkpad e11 chromebook and I want to recovery the system.
I am using "Chromebook recovery utility" for Google chrome on my X250 or on my hp laptop.
And when I want to burn a system on my pendrve (I tried to use 8 gb, 16 gb and sd card 64 gb) then something like this happens:
Can anyone help me? How can I recovery the laptop?
Regards!
Re: Chromebook recovery utility cut the disc into small pieces
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2021 11:33 am
by theterminator93
This is typical, Chrome recovery sets up many partitions on the removable disk like that. To boot the recovery stick on a Chromebook you will need to reset it forcibly - press and hold the power button, esc and the reboot key (the one that is an arrow in a circle, usually 3 or 4 from the top left). It will reboot and have a white screen asking for you to insert the recovery stick. Doing so will automatically start the recover, assuming the recovery drive was set up with the proper software.
You can use the Chromebook Recovery Utility again to clean up the USB disk when you are done with it, or you can do it manually. To do so, first fire up an administrative command prompt and run diskpart.
Type:
list disk
to see a list of all the physical disks; make a note of the disk number of the USB drive. Then type:
select disk xx
where xx is the disk number of the USB drive. Finally, type:
clean
which will erase all partition and file system data. You will need to create a new partition and assign it a drive letter/format it with a file system. You can do that from diskpart or from Disk Management as desired.