Nice find, Doc!
I made a Recovery Drive on a flash drive, cool. But in doing so, I screwed up and formatted my storage drive, which had all my archived stuff on it....bummer.
So, if anyone is gonna make the Recovery Drive on a USB flash drive, don't do what I did, be SURE you pick the correct drive as your recovery drive destination.
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