USB issue in Create Recovery Media - SVT1313S1ES

[mervany]

I can reset my laptop (windows 😎 with the factory backup partition with the vaio care program. 

But I also want this recovery media partition on my usb drive so I can change ssd in the future for example.

The recovery media wizard can't find my 32gb sandisk usb stick, it doesn't find it.

I can see the usb drive when I plug it in. It is visible in "my computer"

What am I doing wrong in terms of the usb stick? Doesn't sony vaio work with certain standard usb sticks?

[Blencogo]

Hi mervany and welcome.

Which SanDisc USB drive are you using?  It must be a USB 2.0 drive as USB drives supporting USB 3.0 cannot be used for Recovery.

Drives like the SanDisk Extreme are USB 3.0 compliant and cannot be used.

[mervany]

Hello,
It is the usb 2.0 one... I can't really understand why it does not show... i've tested it with fat32 and NTFs. Do I need to format it so that the laptop sees it? thank you!