Recovery to external hard drive instead of disks

How  would I write the recovery data to an external hard drive?

panbroil wrote:
How  would I write the recovery data to an external hard drive?
It's not clear what you are trying to do.  If you are asking about using the Recovery Disk Creator but redirecting to an external hard drive, then the reply is that it is not possible to do.  The recovery program requires writing to an optical disk.
If you are asking how to make a recoverable backup to an external hard drive, then you'll need an additional program like Acronis TrueImage to do this.
If neither of these solutions are correct for the question you had, please give us more to work with.

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