1. Attach the USB flash drive to a empty USB port of your PC and open a command prompt window (click on Start and type cmd.exe). Type "DISKPART" and press the Enter or Return key to continue
   
   
   
2. Type "LIST DISK" and press the Enter or Return key to continue. A number of disks will appear. Mostly "Disk 1" belong to the USB flash drive
   
   
   
   
3. Type "SELECT DISK #" (for # use the number of your USB flash drive - e.g. "SELECT DISK 1") and press the Enter or Return key to continue
   
   
   
   
4. Type "CLEAN" and press the Enter or Return key to continue
   
      IMPORTANT - All data on your USB flash drive will be deleted!
   
   
   
   
5. Type "CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY" and press the Enter or Return key to continue
   
   
   
   
6. Type "SELECT PARTITION 1" and press the Enter or Return key to continue
   
   
   
   
7. Type "ACTIVE" and press the Enter or Return key to continue
   
   
   
   
8. Type "FORMAT FS=FAT32" and press the Enter or Return key to continue. Formatting the drive will take a couple of time
   
   
   
   Once it's done, you have to assign a drive letter. Type "ASSIGN LETTER=y" and press the Enter or Return key to continue
   
   
   
9. Type "EXIT" and press the Enter or Return key to continue. A USB flash drive with the drive letter "Y" is now available on the device list

    Factory Image file copy process

1. Mount the recovery ISO image or insert the recovery disc into the ODD
2. Open a elevated command prompt window.
3. Type "XCOPY d:\*.* y:\ /s /e /f /c /h /o /v"
   
   d:\ is only a example for your ODD / Image drive letter ! y:\ is only a example for the USB drive letter
   
   
   
    The recovery image files will be copied to the prepared USB flash drive
   
4.  IMPORTANT - MODIFYING SETTINGS FILE
   
   NOTE: This step is necessary in order to apply the factory recovery successfully on the target unit
   
   If the recovery solution for your notebook / tablet includes more than one ISO image / DVD, please mount the second (third) ISO image / DVD one by one and repeat the XCOPY command (using the same destination drive). If you will be asked, if files should be overwritten, please confirm with "Yes".
   
   After copying all ISO images / DVDs to the USB flash drive, mount the first ISO file "DIKS_COMP_001.ISO" agian and copy the DATA.INI to the USB flash drive. You will be asked to overwrite the existing file, please confirm!
   
   Next, you have to modify the "DATA.INI" file, which is located in the root folder of the USB flash drive.
   
   4.1) Please open the "DATA.INI" file with e.g. the Windows Editor or Notepad application
   4.2) Modify the following two values as follows ("CDNUM" and "CDMAX" must have the value "1"):
           
            Please be sure the DATA.INI from the first ISO file is used!
   4.3) Save the file
   
5. When you have finished the copy process and edited the DATA.INI the USB flash drive should look like at the bleow example screen shot:
   
   
   
6. After copying all recovery images files and modifying the "DATA.INI" file, you can boot from the created recovery USB flash drive and run the OS factory recovery.