Click Recovery Media Creation in the right hand menu in the Recovery Manager window. Select the media type that you want to create. You can select either DVD or USB drive. Once you select one, you will be shown how many DVDs or how large a USB drive you need. Follow the prompts to create the discs. If you are burning the recovery discs, youll be prompted when to insert the next blank disc. Make sure you label the discs as you create them so you know which order they go in. Dell. Launch Dell Data. Safe Local Backup from the Dell Data folder in the All Programs section of the Start menu. Click Backup and select Create Recovery Media. Select the media type you want to use. You can choose between blank DVDs or a USB drive. When you select one, you will be told how many discs you need or how large the USB drive will need to be. If using discs, you can use DVD R, but not RW or DL. Follow the prompts to create your discs or USB drive. Label each of the discs as you create them so they dont get out of order. AcerGateway2Open the Acer folder in the Start menu and select Acer e. Recovery Management. Click the Backup option and select Create Factory Default Disc. Insert your first blank DVD R. You will need two blank discs. You cannot use DVD RW or DL. Follow the prompts to create the recovery discs. Label them so that they dont get out of order. Download a Windows 7 ISO or insert a Windows 7 installation disc. In order to create your own disc that contains all of the drivers you need for your computer, youll need either an ISO file for the Windows 7 installation disc, or an actual installation disc. You can download the Windows 7 ISO from Microsoft here. Youll need your product key in order to download it. See the first section of this article for details. Copy the entire contents of the installation DVD or ISO file into a new folder on your hard drive. You can create a new folder on your desktop and then just select and drag all of the files from the disc or ISO into it. To open an ISO file, youll need either 7 Zip 7 Win. RAR rarlab. Once installed, right click on the ISO file and select Extract. Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit. This program is required in order to build your own Windows installation disc. You can download it for free from Microsoft here. The file is about 1. GB, so it may take a while to download. Download and install NTLite. This program was designed by the Windows enthusiast community to make creating an installation disc much easier. You can download NTLite for free from nliteos. You can leave all of the installation settings at their defaults. Click the Add button in NTLite and select the folder you copied the Windows files into. Youll see your Windows 7 version appear in the Source list. Double click the Windows 7 version in the Source list. Convert the files into an image file if prompted. This will likely take a while to complete. Select the Drivers section of the menu. NTLite allows you to incorporate drivers into the installation, so that you dont have to worry about reinstalling them after recovery. On the right side of the window, youll see a list of all the drivers that will be automatically included. Make note of the drivers that say Missing. Download all of the Missing drivers for your computer from the manufacturers website. If you have the Premium version, you can simply import the drivers from your current computer by clicking Import host. For free users, youll need to download the driver files from the manufacturer and include them manually. Visit the support page for your computer and search for your computers model number. If you built the computer yourself, youll need to visit the Support page for each of your components. Download all of the Missing driver files from the Drivers or Downloads section. Driver files may be in INF or EXE format. Place all of your downloaded files into a single folder. Click the Add button in the Drivers section. Select Folder with multiple drivers and then browse for the folder that contains all of the driver files that you want to add to your installation. This will add all of the INF format files. Select the Post Setup section and click Add. Add all of the driver installers that came in EXE format. These installers will be run automatically once Windows Setup completes. Decide if you want to automate the installation process optional. If you want, you can use NTLite to automate the entire Windows Setup process. This will allow you to start the install and then let your custom installation do the rest. This is optional, and if you dont enable it your Windows installation will proceed normally. Click the Unattended section and then select Enable. Select each item in the list and then use the drop down menu to the right to select your desired option. Click the Add local account option to have NTLite create accounts automatically as well. If you have the premium edition of NTLite, you can have it configure your disk partitions automatically as well. Click the Apply section in the left menu. Once you are satisfied with all of your settings, this section will allow you to finalize the new recovery image. Check the Create ISO box. Youll be prompted to give the new ISO file a name. This will automatically create the disc image file that you can burn after completing the process. Click the Process button. Captain America Fidget Spinner. This will begin building your new image file, including any drivers and automation. This will likely take 2. Right click the completed ISO file and select Burn to Disc. Make sure that you have a blank DVD inserted in your burner. Windows will burn the ISO file to the disc, creating your custom recovery disc.