well here we go again with more sentinel fun for the new year.
i lost rdp access and need to do a factory reset without losing data.
have a 2-3 year old sandisk 16 gb usb drive, and the ISO won’t recognize it.
i then take a newer 20 GB sandisk usb drive, and it is recognized by the ISO setup file - but after 45 minutes, it will not finish creating the bootable USB drive.
Yes, the download looks good. That only leaves the thumb drive. I know the rules says not to use usb 3.0 but I have. I only have one usb3.0 drive and I bought it years ago to load win 8 togo on it
well, there is some progress to report here, but unfortunately they are closing the building in a few moments until Monday, heh.
anyhow, i looked at the drive in windows explorer, and noticed it wrote a 3+ GB file at 3:44 to the USB, so perhaps it’s working but just taking a long time. anyhow, i’m going to try this again on monday.
It took about an hour and 20 minutes to make the USB recovery drive, but it finally finished.
I think it took so long because of the wonkiness of this particular 32 GB SanDisk “micro” flash drive;
Bought it last year at Costco, but have noticed it gets extremely hot fast, and writing files to it in general is a very very slow endeavor; but it’s all I’ve got at the moment so I’m going to stick it out.
Here is the SanDisk USB in question for reference: