Windows Tablets

[abijawa]

hello i have an inconia W5 Tablet , i wish to restore it to default . i have the recovery cd's but no external cd reader . 

please help regarding this issue.

many thanks

[padgett]

Have a choice: can either buy a powered USB DVD player, or transfer the CDs and/or DVD to an external bootable drive (are several threads on what you need to do).

[abijawa]

hello , please advice how to send recovery cd to external drive (pendrive) thanks

[yuroktold1]

you may be able to restore it from recovery partition unless you did OS upgrade. make sure you have at least 10gb free on disk or you will get a warning and restore will not proceed. go to change pc settings; update & recovery in win 8.

[abijawa]

hello , i have all the recovery cd . please advice how to send them to a pendrive so that i can factory restore it.

With regards to the recovery partition , i  dont have any partition in the tablet.

[padgett]

In general, Windows will only boot from a fixed drive (rotating or SSD) and not a removable drive. The only flash drives that I know can be made bootable are Workspace drives.