Monday, 9 February 2015

Create Recovery Media For The HP Chromebook

Posted by Gary Newell  |  at  22:27 6 comments

Introduction

One of the most popular posts on this site shows how to install Ubuntu and Minecraft on an HP Chromebook.

Some people find that guide difficult to follow. I am therefore reworking the article and cutting out any waffle. 

The first part of this process is to show how to create the recovery media for the HP Chromebook which is what this article is all about.

What You Will Need

All you will need to create a recovery drive for the HP Chromebook is a blank USB drive and a fair bit of patience.

The recovery drive only needs to be 4 gb in size but as you can see from the image to the left a 16 gb drive is only £5.

You can also use an .



Create OS Recovery Media
Create OS Recovery Media














To create a recovery partition open up the Chrome browser and type the following:
chrome://imageburner
Note: there is no http:// 

A "Create OS Recovery Media" screen will appear. Insert a blank USB drive or SD Card and press "OK" to continue.

Download Recovery Media
Download Recovery Media















The image will begin to download. The amount of time this takes depends on your internet connection.

Extracting Recovery Media
Extracting Recovery Media


When the image has finished downloading it will be extracted straight to the USB drive or SD Card.

Recovery Media Created
Recovery Media Created



















When the process is complete a success message will appear stating that your recovery media is ready.

Take your USB drive or SD card and put it somewhere very safe and leave it there until it is needed. (Which will hopefully be never).

Summary

This is a very short post but hopefully nice and succinct.

This guide should also work for the Acer Chromebook.

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