How to Create a Time Limited Recovery Image

You can create a DaRT recovery image that can only be used for a certain number of days after it is generated. To do this, you must run the DaRT Recovery Image Wizard at a command prompt and specify the number of days.

To create a recovery image that has a time limit

  1. Open a Command Prompt with administrator credentials.

  2. Change the directory to the location of the ERDC.exe program.

  3. Using the following syntax, run the DaRT Recovery Image Wizard. NumberOfDays is a positive integer that represents the number of days that the DaRT recovery image will be usable.

    ERDC /e NumberOfDays
    

Creating the DaRT 7.0 Recovery Image