I don't understand how ISO works.
My computer is preinstalled with win 8.1.
I want to back up my OS because my recovery drives have been overwritten by microsoft update.
Somehow, they ate my rescue partitions after the last update.
I have the OS running but there are no more rescue partitions.
What I have now is called "windows to go".
Basically, my C drive is booting off of a rescue partition I wrote onto outboard USB drive.
Without the USB drive, it won't boot at all.
CHKDSK reportss all drives healthy with no disk errors.
Disk management reports 3 partitions as 100% empty with my C partition only containing the working OS.
I didn't break it but they expect me to buy it again.
I'd rather not keep buying something I already have so I want to make a copy of it.
My computer is preinstalled with win 8.1.
I want to back up my OS because my recovery drives have been overwritten by microsoft update.
Somehow, they ate my rescue partitions after the last update.
I have the OS running but there are no more rescue partitions.
What I have now is called "windows to go".
Basically, my C drive is booting off of a rescue partition I wrote onto outboard USB drive.
Without the USB drive, it won't boot at all.
CHKDSK reportss all drives healthy with no disk errors.
Disk management reports 3 partitions as 100% empty with my C partition only containing the working OS.
I didn't break it but they expect me to buy it again.
I'd rather not keep buying something I already have so I want to make a copy of it.