how much space needed for seagate discwizaed bootable thumb drive?

[travistee]

I am using seagate discwizard V22 to create a bootable thumb drive.
I thought it used to need up to 32 GB.
I tried it and it says in only needs 184 MB.
Is there something new in how this is being done now?
I just want to know if the 184 MB makes sense.

I'm using this because HP just told me I only had 90 days to make the HP factory version of a thumb drive bootable back up. Too bad they don't tell you that before the 90 days is up. Now they say I have to pay to get a bootable backup even though the laptop is still in warranty.

 

[seagate_surfer]

travistee, here is the user guide for DiscWizard ver. 22

 

[travistee]

Thanks for your reply.
I followed the steps that are shown in the user guide. The reason I asked the question is that for prior versions, like V18 that I had before, the thumb drive had to have at least 32GB.
I thought it was unusual that the space needed was only 184MB. I stopped at that point to check if that is accurate.
Thats what discwizard said.
So, I don't think the user guide answers that question.
Can you check on that for me.
I also used the email link the on the seagate site a few days ago, but I didn't get a reply yet.

 

[travistee]

This is what I get when I try to create the bootable thumb drive .

The 184 MB seems too small.

Is that whats its supposed to be.

I'm on a HP i5 win64 home

I used the "simple" option in discwizard.

 

[seagate_surfer]

This is what I get when I try to create the bootable thumb drive .

The 184 MB seems too small.

Is that whats its supposed to be.

I'm on a HP i5 win64 home

I used the "simple" option in discwizard.

I will look that up for you. In the mean time, you may also contact support here.

 

[travistee]

I'll wait for your reply.

I don't have any immediate problem.

I'm just trying to make a bootable thumb drive for recovery. I would then use discwizard to restore from my seagate backup drive if I ever need it.

If that is all the space I need I'll use a 16GB thumb drive.

It just doesn't sound right.

 

[seagate_surfer]

I'll wait for your reply.

I don't have any immediate problem.

I'm just trying to make a bootable thumb drive for recovery. I would then use discwizard to restore from my seagate backup drive if I ever need it.

If that is all the space I need I'll use a 16GB thumb drive.

It just doesn't sound right.

We created a bootable drive with a thumb drive and it took 461.1 MB. Not sure what the discrepancy of size is all about.

 

[travistee]

OK, I'll go ahead and create the bootable thumb drive.
Do you have any insight into how seagate got it to use so little space. 32GB down to a few hundred MB is nice.
I'm just curious about how they did it.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello!

Sadly we do not have insight in that, nevertheless we would say that this is due to optimization, since most programs that need to be on bootable drives are around that same size. 😉