Made WinPE Bootable USB Key

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I've used AOMEIBackupper to make a WinPE bootable flash drive, against the possible future need to restore my IdeaPad 3 using a system image.

I toyed with the IdeaPad 3's BIOS, after figuring out that it requires rapid-pressing of F2 after a restart to enter the BIOS setup.

I have a 32 GB USB drive with Hiren's Boot CD on it. Boots and works fine as a WinPE environment. I can even connect to our home wi-fi.

The clencher, however, is that it has AOMEIBackupper on it, with which I can restore my laptop using an image made with that same software and stored on an old, long-gone laptop's repurposed SSD, a 340 Gb drive housed in a Sabrent USB-powered case.

Now perhaps I'll be diligent enough to take the time to get the same sort of setup working for my primary desktop PC — the one I use all the time for work.