Create A Windows Recovery Usb For Another Computer

Needed to create a recovery drive for the new computer. It was going to take 10.68GB. Verbatim is a trusted brand; and this was a good price, so I bought three.

I bought two of these for two different older Win10 computers with spinning hard drives that were degrading, making the computers very slow. First was my wife's nearly 9 year old laptop. First attempt at cloning drive failed because the computer shut itself off during the process. Be sure to go into power settings and disable automatic shutdown or sleep mode. Once I did that the cloning succeeded. Second PC was a desktop with a 250GB spinning drive. The SSD is 1 TB. Using the cloning wizard, it wanted to create a 217 GB Windows partition (same size as it was on the spinning drive) and it wanted to blow up the recovery partition to well over 700 GB. Well, that's stupid! It should have kept the recovery partition the same size and increased the Windows partition as much as possible. So I halted the cloning and restarted it in manual mode, which allows changing the partition sizes. In manual mode the cloning software made the correct suggestion: it kept the recovery partition and two small mysterious partitions the same sizes that they were on the hard drive, and it increased the Windows partition to 871 GB. So I accepted those sizes and did the cloning. Why couldn't the wizard have figured that out? Bottom line - pay attention during the cloning process to make sure the wizard isn't doing something dumb. Both computers are now running much faster than before. My wife is delighted with her new laptop. She says it is now super-fast. B&H sale price was great with free two day delivery.

This product worked without additional software needed on a Mac with the latest OS software installed, and on a Windows 11 computer with all of the latest updates applied. It works with both my USB A Mac adapter, the USB C connectors on my Mac, and on the USB A connections on my Windows computer. I am able to utilize an older synthesizer that I can now move around the home with ease and connect it to whichever device I need to (even my iPhone apparently).

After upgrading to Windows 10 my HP computer the built-in sound card stopped working and I couldn't find a driver to work with Windows 10, this small device was simple to install, just plug the device to a USB port and installed it's own driver automatically and it was up and running in no time. I don't mind the device sticking out is just like any USB drive.

Plugged this in to a USB-A port on my computer and then attached my Samsung USB-C headphones to the adapter. Windows 10 found the earphones perfectly, took a coupled of plug-ins to find the microphone, worked OK, Microphone a little soft, Earphones perfect. Windows 11 found and installed drivers for ear-phones microphone. Microphone still a bit soft sounds, turning up gain doesn't much

This is very similar in capabilities to DK30ADD except it is USB-C connected as opposed to USB 3.0. This product again is part of my my essential computer tools and is used daily. It will work on any computer with a USB-C port. It is well made. It comes with power adapters (EU and NA) , a USB-C cable to connect to your computer, and manual. It has Display Link drivers available for Windows and Mac (work in High Sierra). All work well. I have not tested any 4K display devices so can not comment on this or work ability of this but it does provide crisp clean video on lower resolution monitors. This docking station provides all the essentials of USB ports (3 on back, 1 on front), an SD Card slot on the one end, headphone jack and power switch on the front as well as HDMI, Display Link , gig Ethernet on the back along with the 3 USB ports. There is a large power brick for this device so it might not be a light travelling companion. Well made and truly functional docking station and I, for one, will not part with it. This has been tested primarily on a MAC (under High Sierra (not 10.3.4 but higher)) but has also been tested on Windows 10. Note: I received this product in exchange for an unbiased review.

This works great with Windows 10 Home x64 using Windows Fax and Scan. I did not want to use up an expansion slot in the back of the computer so this just plugs into an open USB port in the back. In order to leave it plugged in I got a USB extension so I can have the modem laying on top of the computer. Then I can just plug in the phone line whenever I want to send or receive a fax. Works great that way because I only had to install it once and it starts up every time the computer is turned on. Installation was very easy. Just remember to go in and manually turn on the modem settings and do an update to the drivers.

I bought this on the recommendation of Thom Hogan's public wish list on B&H in which he suggests the Sony G series XQD cards for use with the Nikon D500. It works well with that camera and has been 100% reliable. I have not experienced any issues of the kind reported with other brands/types of XQD cards. I like the fact that the card came with an XQD card reader, -so you know that you have a reader that works with this type of card. The reader is USB 3.0 and comes in the form of a wide dongle that can plug directly into your computer's or laptop's USB port. But it also comes with a 1 foot USB 3.0 extension cord that you can use between the reader and your computer, which is a nice touch. The reader comes with a snap-on plastic cover for its USB connector. The only complaint I have about the reader is that it doesn't have an activity LED, but this is not a big deal. The inclusion of a card reader also saved me some money as otherwise I would have had to buy one separately. A note on the kinds of transfer speeds you may get between the reader and your computer over USB 3.0: The read speeds appear to be OS dependent. I can boot Windows 7 SP1, 8.1, and 10 on the same computer. Under Win 7 I only get read speeds of around 140 to 150 MB/second. Not sluggish, but not particularly fast either. Windows 8.1 is the speed champion at around 230 - 235 MB/second. Win 10 is a little slower at around 220 MB/sec. I've confirmed the Windows 8.1 read speed on my laptop, which only has 8.1 installed. My theory is that the USB storage driver for Windows 7 is not optimized for this kind of reader and media, while the driver for the later versions of Windows is. As always, your mileage may vary....

I have this little multi card reader plugged in to my computer USB C port on my computer and I can pretty much download my full resolution, raw and JPEG files from my canon 5D Mark four with no problem at all. It is super fast like rocket fast. This unit is pretty much plug and play really didn't have to do too much windows 11 and windows 10 based machines were able to recognize it right away and function normally

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This unit came nicely boxed and was easy to unpack. It has nice slim Setup was a breeze. but you must download an application for use with a Windows computer. Unfortunately, as of this writing, this JBL Stream microphone is only compatible with Windows devices. A USB C to USB A cable is provided to interface with the computer. Once the App starts, it will search and find the microphone and then provide you with the various options that you may use for controlling the microphone. It nice slim lines and is very easy to adjust. The base provides a solid foundation for the microphone, and also contains a combination volume control and mute dial. To mute the microphone all you have to do is press the volume control. It also has a nice ring of light around the front of the Microphone which glows green when it is active and red if it is off. The microphone is very sensitive and works quit well for my needs. I use it mostly for speech to text projects and it has worked flawlessly. It also has a 3.5 mm headphone jack built into the base. In summary, this is a no-frills microphone that works flawlessly for my needs, which is primarily creating speech to text Word documents. It has saved me many hours of manual typing. I am very pleased with the JBL Stream microphone.