Recovery DVD for Windows 7 on PXI-8119

[MrQuestion]

I have a PXI-8119 that shipped with a Windows 7 recovery disk.

First, I would like to thank NI for still shipping out recovery DVDs. Many manufaturers are insisting that you perform other tasks such as running a "recovery wizard" or perform a download of the image that can only be downloaded to the device it's meant for thus you need to have a network connection to the device.  

To use the recovery disk I need to have a usb dvd drive.  A usb DVD drive is much more rare to have laying around the lab verses a usb thumb drive.

Does NI have a utility that would convert the supplied bootable DVD disk to a bootable USB drive?

Of course I can do this myself by downloading several utilities out there, but the paperwork to get these "free" tools approved for use can be very cumbersome. I would much rather use a tool from NI where we already have a service agreement and licenses approved.

Or does NI offer the ability to use a tool such as the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool. 

I would be ok with downloading an ISO image if it meant creating an easy bootable USB drive.

[PTerro · Accepted solution]

Hi MrQuestion,

Do you have acronis on your system?  Because you can run this to do the same thing the recovery DVD would do.  See the following link:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/C121B7EB066F078D86256D6A0062E317