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