Chromebook Recovery Utility

It works as intended. I see reviews stating that there are several pop ups that state that the drive needs to be formatted. Well as strange as that may seem, that is how the drive is formatted when it comes to Chromebooks. Once it says "done" (you can close out all of the formatting pop ups since I promise you that is normal) unplug the drive from your windows based computer or MAC OS computer and plug it in to your Chromebook and boot it into "power wash mode" and the process of wiping and e... Show more

for those that are saying "broke my USB" . . . Okay so your device (very very likely anyways) is not broke. Royally misconfigured? Well, unfortunately probably so. If its popping up "you need to format the disk in (whatever drive)" and showing up as multiple messed up drives, then you wont be able to format it like you normally would. You are going to have to fix the partition by going in and deleting everything that's on the drive. I did a screen recording of me fixing mine. It shouldn't hav... Show more

I tried to use this utility to restore ChromeOS to my laptop, but it didn't work. I wasted four USB sticks in the process, and one of them died. Some of the USB sticks made my computer think that there were 10 different USB sticks connected, even though I have a decent PC. I never had this problem when I installed Windows on my other PC.