Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination Options
In the Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination, on the Veritas System Recovery Disk Creation Wizard, select the destination to save the Veritas System Recovery Disk on a USB disk or as an ISO file.
The Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination panel also displays the disk space available on the selected drive of your computer. For example, C drive. You can select multiple destination media. If you select the ISO option, you can also save the Veritas System Recovery Disk to a network destination. When you specify a network destination, you must enter a valid user name and password to access the network.
For a USB media, both the NTFS and FAT32 file systems are supported. If you need to create a USB Veritas System Recovery Disk that needs to boot on both BIOS and UEFI (firmware) computers, then you must create the recovery disk on a FAT32 USB drive.
Note: You cannot create multiple Veritas System Recovery Disks on the same media.
Veritas System Recovery does not support using a lower version of a Veritas System Recovery Disk to restore a newer version of an operating system. For example, you cannot use a Veritas System Recovery Disk created on Windows 7 to restore a Windows 8 operating system. You cannot restore a Veritas System Recovery Disk created using Windows ADK for Windows 8.0 to restore a Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 operating system.
In the Create Veritas System Recovery Disk Wizard, if you select the Typical or Advanced option, you can create a 32-bit or 64-bit Veritas System Recovery Disk on your computer.
When you select the Advanced option, you can create both 32-bit and 64-bit Veritas System Recovery Disk as ISO files on your computer. Both the ISO files are stored in the same folder with different names.
The following table describes the options on the Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination panel.
Related information
Table: Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Disk label | Lets you specify the name that you want to use for the |
| Veritas System Recovery Disk label. | |
| Select the platform of the recovery disk | This option is only displayed if you select the Advanced option to create a Veritas System Recovery Disk. |
| Select the 32-bit, 64-bit, or both platforms for which you want to create the Veritas System Recovery Disk. | |
| Select a drive to create a Veritas System Recovery Disk on a USB device | Lets you save your new Veritas System Recovery Disk to a USB device. |
| Select the media drive in which you have inserted in the USB device. | |
| The existing data on the USB device is not | |
| formatted during Veritas System Recovery Disk | |
| creation. If you have a recovery disk created on the same USB drive, the new recovery disk overwrites the older recovery disk. | |
| Note: Veritas recommends that only privileged users or an administrator should have the rights to access the USB folder. Veritas also recommends that the recovery media files be managed only by trusted users. This is to ensure that the files are always safe and no one can tamper with them. | |
| If you attach an unsupported volume to your computer, the Show Unsupported Devices link is displayed. When you click the link, the Unsupported Devices dialog box with a list of the unsupported volumes and the reason for the unsupported volume is displayed. | |
| Veritas System Recovery Disk on a USB is not supported for the following disks or drives: | |
| - FAT (FAT16) and exFAT formatted drives. | |
| - Dynamic disk. | |
| - Hidden volumes (no drive letter is assigned to the USB volume). | |
| - USB is write-protected. | |
| - USB is protected using an encryption software (such as, BitLocker, TrueCrypt, SEP) at the disk or the volume level. | |
| - USB drives that are on extended partitions. | |
| - USB disk is formatted to GPT layout. | |
| - U3 USB devices. | |
| - Native 4K disk greater than 2TB. | |
| A Veritas System Recovery Disk does not support the super formatted USB disk. | |
| Note: You cannot create a 64-bit Veritas System Recovery Disk if your computer has a 32-bit operating system. | |
| Save the Veritas System Recovery Disk as an ISO file | Lets you save your new Veritas System Recovery Disk as an ISO file. |
| Click Browse and specify the path where you | |
| want to save the ISO file. |
Firmware support matrix for Veritas System Recovery Disk created on USB drive (Thumb/HDD)
The maximum size of the USB drive (Thumb/HDD) should be up to 2 terabytes.
Table: Firmware support matrix
| Firmware support | FS Type | Supported cluster size |
|---|---|---|
| BIOS bootable USB Veritas System Recovery Disk | FAT32 | Up to 8K |
| BIOS bootable USB Veritas System Recovery Disk | NTFS | 4K |
| Both BIOS + UEFI bootable USB Veritas System Recovery Disk | FAT32 | Up to 8K |