Can recovery and/or password reset disk data stored on temporarily on a hard drive.

People,

I am volunteer non-professionals that keeps about 8 computers churches.  Right now they are a mixture of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.  I want to do a reset disk and recovery password for each of them.  My problem is the cost of all readers USB flash (thumb) that would be required.  If I understand the process will automatically delete all data on the USB flash drives and can take up to 32 GB.

Anyone know if the drive reset or recovery can be created by using a USB key and then the transferred data from the USB on a NAS hard disk temporary storage (as well as the data for all other computers).  Then, if the data are required, can he be transferred back to a USB flash drive to use in recovery or reset?  My goal is to buy 1 flash drive rather than 8.

I looked for this specific information in a variety of places but have not found or he didn't understand.  I'm not positive that install, upgrade and activate is the best subject, but I found a few preliminary questions related to the creation of recovery media this subject so I start here.

Thanks for your help,

Bill

Hi Bill,

Welcome to the Microsoft community.

I would like to inform you that you can create the system recovery disk and save them to your external hard drives like filesystem image. See the support article below

What is a system image?

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/what-is-a-system-image

System images created as explained above will have an exact copy of your hard disk at the time the image was taken. So you can use it to recover your PC in case if there are problems

Hope this information helps.

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