Creating Recovery Media on Shared R/W DVD

On my Toshiba netbook (n508) I can map a drive to a shared DVD R/W but when I go to create a recovery DVD it only offers me a choice of a USB drive. I cannot see buying the Toshiba external DVD or a 16 GB pen drive for a one time use when I have a shared DVD drive and a 2 GB pen drive for all other uses. How do I use the shared DVD drive to create the back up DVDs?
It would be so much simpler if Toshiba included recovery disks. It would not cost that much in quantity and would solve a lot of headaches for the users.

Recovery media can be created on CDs, DVDd or USB flash drives, but not on USB HDDs. If the external storage firmware is designed in such a way that it detects the device as Flash drive, it can work.
best is to use USB flash drive because when you create the recovery media on a USB drive, one generally do not use it for any other purpose. this is to avoid any curruption or virus related issues. dedicated 16GB USB flash drive is recommended, need not block your 320GB drive for recovery image anyways.
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plsfoldthx, welcome to the forum,
please do and check the following; attach the drive when the system is turned off, start the system and then enter bios (F1). Navigate to and open the startup menu and check that the drive is recognised by bios, hit F10 and then enter to save and exit. The system will restart.
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Good evening everyone.
I just accepted the delivery of my 5 brand new notebooks for my company's new workers.
3 of those notebooks are HP Probook 450 G2's (PN: J4R69EA)
(These are the models with the 128GB SSD drives)
The other two are Lenovo E540’s with similar specs.
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Searching this forum pointed me to :
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Hey @SCamm ,
To get your issue more exposure I would suggest posting it in the commercial forums since this is a commercial product. You can do this at Commercial Forums.
Dual-layer recording allows DVD-R and DVD+R discs to store significantly more data. DVD+R DL also called DVD+R9 are what is needed to create the Recovery media on this notebook. Sorry to say.
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When I created recovery discs for my laptop using HP Recovery Manager, I got the message:
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