Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination Options
In the Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination panel, on the Customize Veritas System Recovery Disk 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 8.1 to restore a Windows 10 operating system. You cannot restore a Veritas System Recovery Disk created using Windows ADK for Windows 8.1 to restore a Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems.
The following table describes the options on the Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination panel.
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 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. | |
| Note: 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. | |
| See How to add new drivers or driver versions to the Veritas System Recovery Disk . | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | Both BIOS + UEFI bootable USB Veritas System Recovery Disk | 4K |
| Both BIOS + UEFI bootable USB Veritas System Recovery Disk | FAT32 | Up to 8K |