In the next screen of the Recovery Drive wizard, you’ll be prompted to select your USB drive. (If you select this option, you’ll need a sufficiently large capacity USB flash drive.) Figure C If you choose to back up system files, you can use the Recovery Drive to reinstall Windows.įor this example, I’m going to back up system files. As you can see, backing up system files is optional. In a moment, you’ll see the first screen in the Recovery Drive wizard, shown in Figure C. Figure B When you launch the Recovery Drive tool, you’ll encounter a UAC. Figure A Accessing the Recovery Drive tool from the Control Panel is easy. As you can see in the UAC dialog box, the program name is listed as Recovery Media Creator. You’ll then encounter a UAC, as shown in Figure B, and will need to click Yes to continue. When the search is complete (a matter of seconds), click Create A Recovery Drive, as shown in Figure A. To launch the USB flash drive version of the Recovery Drive creation tool, open the Control Panel and type Recovery in the search box. (If you have a smaller drive, from the old days, you could use it as well.) If you are going to add system files, you’ll want at least a 16GB USB flash drive. Thus, if you are creating a basic Recovery Drive, you can use a 1GB USB flash drive. However, if you choose to include the system files, which will allow you to use the Recovery Drive to reinstall Windows, you’ll need more space. In its base configuration, the contents of the Recovery Drive will require about 330 MB of space. The USB flash drive you use will become a dedicated Recovery Drive–you won’t be able to use it for anything else.
Likewise, you can’t use a 32-bit Recovery Drive in a 64-bit Windows 10 system. In other words, if you create a Recovery Drive in a 64-bit version of Windows 10, you can’t use that drive to boot up and repair a 32-bit version of Windows 10. Regardless of whether you are creating a Recovery Drive on a USB flash drive or on an optical disc, it is important to remember that a Recovery Drive is bit specific. In this article, I’ll show you both ways to create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive. Why Microsoft didn’t unify the process under one roof, I don’t know. The USB flash drive version is created using a stand-alone tool the optical disc is created from the Backup And Restore (Windows 7) user interface. While both procedures produce the same recovery tool, they are created from different user interfaces. In Windows 10, you can create a Recovery Drive on a USB flash drive as well as on an optical disc. That way, you’ll be prepared should you encounter a problem with your Windows 10 installation. If you haven’t done so yet, you need to create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive. It is versatile and simple, but has enough power to recover files of any type (music, videos, photos, documents, etc.).A Recovery Drive lets you boot your system and easily access a number of recovery and troubleshooting tools to revive a failing Windows 10 system. If you only lost a few files or folders, you can get by with DiskInternals Uneraser. And that's DiskInternals Partition Recovery, or RAID Recovery if you have an array. To feel confident and always prepared, you need a truly effective data recovery application. If your computer crashesĭata on the disk can disappear without a trace at any time, be damaged as a result of system failures, or have other problems with the hard disk, including viruses, malware, etc. You should now be able to include system files on the recovery drive.
Now, in Command Prompt: enter “Reagentc /setosimage /path D:\Windows-OS-image/index 1” and press Enter. Then copy the “install.wim” file from the Windows 10 installation file to a folder on your hard drive.
If you can't create a USB disk with included system files. If you see that the recovery environment is disabled, then fix it with the command: "reagentc /enable". In Command Prompt, type "reagentc /info" and hit Enter.
In this case, download the Windows 10 recovery disk ISO file and burn it to a USB drive. It also happens that some drives cannot be recognized by Windows. Look at the connectors and the drive itself they may already be damaged and cause problems.
Perhaps one of them will help you complete the work you started. If you receive an error message during the creation of a Windows 10 recovery disk for another computer, you can try to use the methods that are described below. After completing this process, files and applications will be removed, so be prepared for this. When you have successfully booted from the recovery drive, select "Troubleshoot".