hey guys Gabriel with chrome unboxed and
today we're talking recovery media
perhaps you've bought your device and
you've got that white screen of death
that says insert recovery media or maybe
you like us and you'd like to take her
and it's just a good idea to have a
backup just in case so we're going to
show you all the steps on how to install
and create a backup for your device
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doing this just as a backup you can do
it from whatever device you want but if
you've actually borked your chromebook
you'll need a second device to set up
the recovery media so we have a Acer 512
here that we've got on the recovery
screen and we're going to use the HP 15
to dam load and create our image so
let's get started on installing alright
one other thing you're gonna need is a
flash drive you're gonna need at least
four gigs in the flash drive will work
obviously if your device only has USB
sees you're gonna need an adaptor or USB
C Drive recommend pretty much any brands
you want to pick up except for sand
discs for some reasons sandesh flash
drives do not play well with the Chrome
OS recovery tool and they are hit or
miss so you gonna slide over to the
chrome webstore and you're gonna look up
the Chromebook recovery utility it is by
Google you can see it right there on the
offered by your gonna install that on
your Chromebook and then you're gonna
launch it they're gonna be greeted with
a screen that tells you the same thing I
just did you're gonna need a flash drive
go ahead and get started so this is
where you're actually going to choose
the device that you're making the
recovery media for not the one you're
doing it on so you can select the model
from a list sometimes you might have to
use the board name and we'll put a link
in the description where you can find
all those board names for your specific
device but just go ahead and click
select model from the list go to Acer
and then you're going to keep scrolling
until you find the 512 there's a couple
different model numbers they're all the
same it's all the same board and then
from there click continue make sure your
flash drive is inserted and then select
the
device you want to use right now we have
a 16 gig on the drive there and then
next and create now it's going to take a
few minutes to download and install this
and then when it's done it'll tell you
do you eject the device and you're ready
to go it's moving on to the next
Chromebook got your white screen of
death there so you're gonna take your
newly created recovery media plug it
into the drive and we wait that's gonna
verify the install image and then in
just a few seconds it will start the
recovery process it doesn't take very
long it's just installing a new version
of Chrome OS and making sure
everything's verified and safe and
you'll be ready to go so there you go
once the recovery is complete it'll let
you know and you're just going to remove
the media and it will restart on its own
once this reboot you have a completely
clean fresh install of Chrome OS you'll
be ready to login just like its brand
new for whatever reason this did not
work maybe your recovery media was
flawed just try it again
use a different flash drive you always
want to make sure you have at least a
four gig flash drive and this will work
with any device so once you get into the
recovery tool you'll be able to find any
device that you have is in the list
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