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I seem to recall some vendor (HP?) selling external tape drives at some point that supported bootable, bare metal Windows restore from tape. I believe it worke

I seem to recall some vendor (HP?) selling external tape drives at some point that supported bootable, bare metal Windows restore from tape. I believe it worked by supplying the recovery software as a bootable ISO image in ROM on the drive and emulating a bootable (USB? SCSI?) CD-ROM drive at boot.

fsckboy 2y ago
DAT tapes presented as disk drivers, sector addressable. and you can dump a .iso to a disk to make it bootable, so sounds right.