How to make a Rebit Recovery Flash Drive
Due to the fact that more and more computers do not have optical drives these days, it is sometimes necessary to use a flash drive to boot into Rebit's full system restoration function instead of a CD.
In order to do this, users must first download UNetbootin, a program that allows the creation of bootable USB drives:
UNetbootin-- Latest Windows Software
Additional information about UNetbootin can be found here
Once UNetbootin is downloaded, run it. You will see a Window that looks like this:
Click the bubble next to "Diskimage." Leave the default "ISO" option and download the following file:
Once it is downloaded, click on the [...] in the Diskimage field and find the file that you just downloaded. Once it is selected, click OK. You should now have UNetbootin look like this:
At the bottom of the UNetbootin window, select "USB Drive" under Type and then the select the correct drive letter in the Drive menu. It may be necessary to select "Show All Drives" if your flash drive does not appear.
Once you have everything selected, click OK.
Note:When the process completes it will ask if you want to reboot – select EXIT.
Now, open the flash drive in your Computer/My Computer window. You will see the following files:
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Now make the following changes:
- Rename menu.c32 to 1menu.c32
- Rename syslinux.cfg to 1syslinux.cfg
- Copy menu.c32 from the boot folder on the flash drive into the root of the USB drive
- Copy USB:\boot\isolinux\isolinux.cfg into the root of the USB drive
- In the root of the drive rename menu.c32 to vesamenu.c32
- In the root of the drive rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
- Done. Boot from the flash drive to verify.