My friend's Laptop crashed and now I need to send a Windows 8 System repair to him over the internet since there is no other Windows 8 machine there.
Is this possible? Specially since Windows 8 requires to write it on a DVD or USB flash drive... how do you guys suggest I get it to him?
I'm thinking:
1) Create the recovery/repair usb drive here locally..
2) use a tool to create an ISO image of that usb drive
3) send that ISO over to him
4) use the same tool to restore or create a bootable USB drive from that ISO image i sent.
Do I need to go through all these? or shall I just send him the contents of the USB flash drive? (I'm not familiar with Windows 8 boot directives, but I know on Windows 7 the flash drive needs to be made "bootable" for sure.)
Answer
Create a restore USB - create an img image -I use the win32 disk imager - run as admin, and use read to create the image and write apply an image to the disk. This is a full bit by bit copy of the drive so to reduce bandwidth usage, compress the image with 7zip or something.
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