Force reBoot From USB from Windows 7

gzibell

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Mar 19, 2013
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Hello everyone,

Not sure if this is possible or not. I have created an bootable usb flash drive that does an unattended restore of an hdd image to the hdd of a paticular machine. Waht I would like to do is have something that I could run from windows to tell the machine to reboot and use the usb drive installed.


I cannot set the bios to boot of of usb first because then there would be info lost every time the computer was rebooted. Esentially, I would like to leave this USB drive in place as a fix all. Run a program from windows, computer reboots off usb, restores the image, and then reboot back to the new windows desktop.

Is there anything out there that can do this?