Dell Recovery

A question about : Dell Recovery

I'm looking for a way of storing the Dell recovery media written to a usb flash drive.
The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 3531, the owner has not made any recovery media.
It's now prompting every time it's turned on.
I've got a 16Gb flash drive, 8.5GB is required, so ok there.

The trouble is, I need this drive for other things.
Has anyone had success storing as an .iso, then writing back to a flash drive?
I'm familiar with using Imgburn to make an.iso, but not too sure of what to use to write the .iso back to a flash drive.

Use Rufus?

Best answers:

• Xboot may work
• Yup, use Xboot all the time. (See old posts, )
  Just got the impression that Rufus is the favourite for Windows recovery although I've never yet used it.
  I have to sort this today, so will make .iso from files on flash, and worry about it *if* laptop goes wrong, or just do clean install.
  (Already extracted and saved key.)
• Did the laptop come with Windows 8 or 8.1 installed when it was new?
  If so then it probably boots using UEFI rather than BIOS - in which case you might want to make sure that whatever tool you use is capable of creating something that will boot in UEFI mode when you're trying to recover the PC.
  So that would be something to check with xboot (I don't know whether it has that capability or not.)
• will it only produce backup onto a usb, or will it burn to a couple of DVDs?
• https://www.eightforums.com/performan...ows-8-1-a.html
  this any good mate?