Arctera System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination Options
In the Arctera System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination panel, on the Customize Arctera System Recovery Disk Wizard, select the destination to save the Arctera System Recovery Disk on a USB disk or as an ISO file.
The Arctera 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 Arctera 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 Arctera 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 Arctera System Recovery Disks on the same media.
Arctera System Recovery does not support using a lower version of a Arctera System Recovery Disk to restore a newer version of an operating system. For example, you cannot use a Arctera System Recovery Disk created on Windows 10 to restore a Windows 11 operating system. You cannot restore a Arctera System Recovery Disk created using Windows ADK for Windows 10 to restore a Windows 11 operating systems.
The following table describes the options on the Arctera System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination panel.
Table: Arctera System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Disk label | Lets you specify the name that you want to use for the |
| Arctera System Recovery Disk label. | |
| Select a drive to create a Arctera System Recovery Disk on a USB device | Lets you save your new Arctera 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 Arctera 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: Arctera recommends that only privileged users or an administrator should have the rights to access the USB folder. Arctera 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 Arctera 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. | |
| Arctera 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. Note: To convert the GPT based USB disk to MBR layout, refer to the following link:https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100073749 | |
| - U3 USB devices. | |
| - Native 4K disk greater than 2TB. | |
| A Arctera System Recovery Disk does not support the super formatted USB disk. | |
| Save the Arctera System Recovery Disk as an ISO file | Lets you save your new Arctera 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 Arctera 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 Arctera System Recovery Disk | FAT32 | Up to 8K |
| BIOS bootable USB Arctera System Recovery Disk | Both BIOS + UEFI bootable USB Arctera System Recovery Disk | 4K |
| Both BIOS + UEFI bootable USB Arctera System Recovery Disk | FAT32 | Up to 8K |