Guide - Creating a Disk Image bootable USB drive

A bootable USB drive (Recovery Media) lets you start a machine that won't boot, run the Magnus Box Application from it and restore a Disk Image backup onto the machine's disks. Make one before you need it, from any working Windows device that has the Magnus Box Application installed.

Before you start

• A USB flash drive of at least 2 GB and up to 32 GB. External USB hard drives don't boot on all hardware.
• Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) must be installed and available on the Windows device. You can check with the reagentc /info command.

Steps

1. Plug the USB drive into the Windows device.
2. Open the Magnus Box Application on that device, click the three-dot (...) menu, and choose Create Recovery Media.
3. Choose WinRE (the default) and then Create as USB. To boot a virtual machine or cloud VM instead, choose Create as ISO.
4. Pick the USB drive. To use an external USB hard drive, tick Show all drives.
5. Choose whether to copy the device's current drivers into the media. This usually helps the recovery environment work on that hardware. You can also add extra drivers (*.inf files), custom files, or a command to run at startup.
6. Create the media and wait for it to finish.

To use the drive, see Recover a whole machine (bare-metal restore). For every option, including booting and limitations, see Recovery Media.

Need help? Email support@magnusbox.com.