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CD/DVD's don't like my skin chemistry or zodiac sign or something; I only have a 50/50 chance of reading a pre-written CD/DVD

so I never use them. I've never h ad a single problem using SP RE from a USB drive - either Flash or Hard Disk - t his is the procedure I use: 1a) Mount ISO file as a virtual CD - you can now see all of the files it contain s - Virtual Clone Drive s/w (free) for one does this - we'll assume the mounted ISO is assigned drive letter D: OR 1b) Insert a burned SP RE CD/DVD - we'll assume it is drive letter D: 2) Obtain a 2 GB (min.) USB drive - either flash or hard disk - that can be com pletely overwritten - do not yet insert it 3) Open a command prompt with admin privileges 4) Type DISKPART 5) Type LIST DISK - note the drive numbers of the currently present disk drives 6) Insert usb drive - wait about 30 seconds for windows to detect 7) Type LIST DISK - note that there is a new drive number that wasn't listed in the previous LIST DISK - this is the just inserted USB drive - note its number 8) Type SELECT DISK n where n is the usb drive's number 9) Type DETAIL DISK - this is the last chance to make sure that you selected th e correct disk number for the USB drive and not some other drive by mistake in t he above SELECT DISK n - make sure the info here makes sense i.e. it was what you expect to be on the USB drive and not some internal drive 10) Type CLEAN - this logically erases the drive 11a) For Flash type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY - this makes a primary partition using the entire drive OR 11b) For Hard disk type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=2000 12) Type ACTIVE - this makes the just created parition bootable/active 13a) For Flash type FORMAT FS=FAT32 LABEL="SHADOWREC" QUICK - I've been mean ing to try FS=EXFAT - this would be preferred but I don't yet know if it works OR 13b) For Hard disk type FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="SHADOWREC" QUICK 14) Type ASSIGN - this assigns the just create partition a drive letter - we'll assume it is E: 15) Type EXIT to end DISKPART 16) Type E: (USB drive letter) 17) Type MD BOOT

18) Type MD SOURCES 19) Type COPY D:\BOOTMGR following steps assuming D: is drive letter of mounted ISO - same in

20) Type COPY D:\BOOT\BCD E:\BOOT 21) Type COPY D:\BOOT\BOOT.SDI E:\BOOT 22) Type COPY D:\SOURCES\BOOT.WIM E:\SOURCES 23) Type EXIT to close command prompt

If I didn't leave out anything, you now have a bootable USB flash or hard disk t hat will boot WIN PE that has been customized by StorageCraft to include ShadowP rotect which automatically starts at boot time. Note - I've done this on a USB flash drive; I also did this on a USB hard disk - the same one that I use to take my backups, so I have a USB disk that I can pl ug in and boot SP RE that also contains the backup files I will be using to rest ore. Note that this contains ONLY the PREFERRED ShadowProtect recovery environment an d not the legacy one. I know this is unsupported, but this is standard fare for Win PE which is what t he SP RE Preferred environment is based upon.

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