Creation of HP Z420 Workstation to USB recovery media - fails to see USB

Hi all

Thank you in advance for watching my problem here and for any help you may be able to provide.

I reecently bought a workstation HP Z420 (Win 7 Pro x 64), and I was very happy with it until this problem arose.

I was at my wit's end until I found this forum, and I am pleased that it is apparently composed of knowledgeable HP (and other) people who can help you.

I tried to go forward with the process of recovery of HP Media, creating a backup on a USB thum, but the application does not see the USB when I insert it.  It says it must ~8.3GB, and I install a brand new Sandisk Cruzer 16 GB, but he sees nothing (he says that if the media did not have sufficient capacity, it would show it in police greyed, but nothing here).

The USB key is listed under hard drives, and as I understand it, it cannot be seen, but don't know how to be seen under the removable storage media and so to work.

I'm not a computer / person nowledgeable tech.  If there was a patch issued, or any known, fix it please help.

Thank you

Ted

Boston

It is a major problem of acknowleded by SanDisk on earlier versions of the Cruzer

You can check in the Device Manager to see if the stick appears as a USB device or a hard drive.   No matter what question mark or exclamatiion showing beside it?

Download and run a program called BootIt : simply turn on the bit "removable"! Unplug and plug in again and you're ready to go.

Another solution, force it to create a bootable device / removal with this program.

http://Rufus.AKEO.IE/

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