Recovery Image on an External Hard Drive?

I was wondering if I could save a recovery image on my external hard drive?
It says to use a USB or Disc, but my computer doesn't have a CD drive, and I don't have a USB with a min of 19GB. What I do have are several 8GB, and less, and one 16GB, but these won't work for this. Nor do I have an external CD drive.
So I was wondering if I could use my external hard drive [It's got 2TB, but it's not empty...]?
I was just hoping for another option rather than buying a new USB... or external CD drive...

There is no way that I know of to trick Recovery Manager into using the external hdd.
Just an FYI- not all USB flash drives will work. We see many people posting about problems with creating the recovery. I just made mine and it failed to recognize a Sandisk 3.0 drive. Tried a PNY 3.0 and it worked smooth and fast.
http://www.staples.com/PNY-32GB-Turbo-USB-30-Flash-Drive/product_338657
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I'm very much a newbie and am having a problem with moving images to an external hard drive. Do I set up a new external drive and use the Export function to put all my files there, and then delete them from my computer (which is very full!)? If so, can I be sure that Lightroom will keep track of all the files and keywords? If I do that, I think my catalog will still live on my computer, but will know the files are on the external.
The other option I've considered is dragging and dropping everything to the external drive, then using the Import function to let Lightroom bring all the images into its catalog. I've found information about moving Lightroom to a new computer, but all I really need to do is to offload all my images to the external and leave the program on the laptop. Any suggestions with step-by-step instructions will be appreciated.
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Make sure all your images/image folders are in one Top Level Folder on your Laptop. If you don't have this structure do it in the Lightroom Library.
Then connect the external and COPY the Top Level folder to the external using the OS.
Next right/ctrl click the Top Level folder in the Library and choose Update Folder Location and point to the new location on the external.
If the files have all been copied successfully you can now trash the Top Level folder from the Laptop using the OS.
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