[SkyDancer]

Since a computer question was asked maybe someone could answer this for me. I have a notebook with no cd drive and I need to make a restore disk. Can I use a usb cable to connect it to another computer that has a cd drive and make it that way? Will the notebook see the other computer’s cd drive? Thanks in advance.

[FlJoePa]

In my experience, by the time you mess around and try to use other methods, a good 32GB thumb drive is probably the quickest way to do it (still not real quick, obviously).

Start w/ pictures and music and work your way towards applications.

[Woodman]

There are two main ways you can do this but a USB cable won’t work. You can network the two computers and share the cd burner, then you would burn to that shared device. The second would be to get an external cd burner (USB interfaced)and burn it directly. External burners are pretty inexpensive these days and you can use it to burn and save photos, personal files, play Dvd movies, music cd’s etc. Usually a decent one is $30-$50. The networking solution takes a bit of knowledge of home networking. I recommend the burner.

[mabarker1]

Try this and get the drive of Your choice to backup to.

[OldMissileer]

I have a notebook with no cd drive and I need to make a restore disk. Can I use a usb cable to connect it to another computer that has a cd drive and make it that way?

That will not work

If you go online to a site like Newegg.com you can find external DVD/CD drives on sale for around $25 with free shipping.

Just plug that in to the notebook USB port and then burn the restore disk.

[minnesota_bound]

Create a USB recovery drive
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive

How to create a Windows rescue USB stick
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/how-to-create-a-windows-rescue-usb-stick-984726#null

Many how to’s listed on the right side of the page. The one below shows how Acer does a recovery:

Windows 7 - Restore Windows Using a USB Recovery Drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcxIZqO4JrY

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I have a notebook with no cd drive and I need to make a restore disk.

This is how I did it with my Asus EeePC netbook with no CD_ROM drive.

First, download Macrium Relect imaging software. It's free and it rocks. Install it on the netbook and using an external USB drive, create an image of the entire drive of the netbook.

Then, using Macrium, create an Emergency boot device using a USB thumb drive. The steps are pretty simple and Macrium has all the steps needed. Then just get to the netbook bios and make sure the thing can boot from USB. When you need to do a restore, boot from the USB and have Macrium write the image you took onto the netbook drive.

Of course, you should do a new image to the USB drive on a weekly, or monthly basis depending on how irreplaceable your data is.