Physical media can be provided with a purchase of a computer system. The physical media can allow a user to restore the computer system to the factory defaults if there is a problem with the computer system. The physical media can also be used to perform data recovery. However, physical media can be expensive and unreliable. The physical media can be faulty due to a manufacturing process problem or may not be supported by the disk drive used to read the physical media. Furthermore, the physical media is a fixed size which limits the amount of information that can be stored in the physical media. Moreover, the physical media is read-only so it cannot be updated or upgraded by the user. For example, if a user upgrades the operating system on the computer system and needs to restore the computer system, the physical media would restore the computer system to the originally installed operating system (factory default), rather than the upgraded version. If a user wanted to restore to the updated or upgraded version of the operating system, the user would be required to obtain a new physical media corresponding to the upgraded or updated version of the operating system or download and install the updates.