How to Create a Windows Recovery Drive
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- ⏱️ A Windows Recovery Drive can be used to restore Windows backups to your machine and much more. I'll show you how to create one.
⏱️ Creating a Recovery Drive
Search for and run the Recovery Drive app. Insert a USB thumb drive 16GB or larger. This drive will be completely erased. Follow the instructions in the app to create the recovery drive, making sure “Back up system files to the recovery drive” is checked. Be sure to test your ability to boot from the recovery drive after it’s been created.
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0:00 Windows Recovery Drive
1:00 You will need a USB drive
2:00 Set up the drive
3:20 Recovery drive is ready
4:00 Use your recovery drive
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Excellent informative video, many thanks Leo👍🇦🇺
Thank you for your video! I tried the second method of creating a Windows installation disk on a USB drive. I booted off of it (windows 10) but it only gave me the option to install Windows, there was no option to repair and access the repair tools Any ideas? Thank you
I've learned so much from you today! Thanks for the concise, clear instructions.
I'm attempting to make a recovery drive. I have an old recovery thumb drive 16 gb. If it has data on it, will it delete that - or should I delete an old recovery?
It should delete, and even warn you that it's about to.
Also once I have the recovery drive. can it be used on different models of computers with different Windows 10? If my plan is just to repair to install?
For me every time I have tried this it said something went wrong
(For my main desktop PC I have a USB with Windows installation media on it, which can also (attempt to) repair an existing Windows installation, I’ve never tried using the repair function, but I do know the USB will work for doing a clean install)
I've just created a Recovery USB Drive on my laptop (too late to make one for the faulty Desktop...).
Inserted into my Win 11 desktop m/c but it doesn't boot automatically from it. and I can see no way to alter the Bios Setup to change that.
HELP.
Leo, when I bought a new desktop recently, I had a second SSD installed. The idea at the time was that, once I had all of my apps installed, I would clone C:\ to the second SSD so that if C: ever became unbootable or corrupt, I would go into the BIOS and boot from that second SSD. Periodically I would update the clone from C: so that all of the app settings were updated as well. I thought this small additional cost would avoid creating an external recovery drive and would be much faster to get back up and running. Do you see any problem with that ? (P.S., I partition both SSD's so that the O/S is on one partition and data on the other. )
I would ABSOLUTELY test it before you need it. It's not uncommon for something important to have been overlooked. (And what that is varies, unfortunately, hence testing it out.)
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Leo - test yes - but how?
Testing it would presumably wipe the OS on C and reinstall Windows - so if the test demonstrated the recovery drive was corrupt you’d have neither the OS nor the recovery drive useable!
@@Wol747 I thought your setup was to remove the damaged drive and then boot from #2. If I'm correct, then test doing that.
Reply to wrong person! @@askleonotenboom
Is there a way to verify the copy on the thumb drive? Also, how often should you make this backup?
Don't know of a verification method. Typically once is fine, or when you take major updates to Windows.
How does having Bitlocker enabled on the PC effect crreating/using a recovery drive? is that recovery drive secure?
The recovery drive does not contain your data so there's really no need for it to be secure.
when it starts i get a message saying insert disk then it starts to create recovery disk - is this ok ?
Hello Leo, do you know if it backups up all the drivers too. Thanks
While it's technically not a backup, I do believe drivers are included.
Yes, it backups all the drivers as well. When you reinstall Windows this way your PC will be restored to factory settings, as it was when you bought the PC.
Thank you: Questions, does the drive have to be formatted a certain way & why would someone else take more than twice the time to explain this differently but essentially the same result?
I believe Windows will format it if needed.
Very good, of course, but I am unable to find the (accompanying?) video "How do I boot from a USB Thumb Drive?" Without it, the recovery drive is of no use. Are you able to help, please?
askleo.com/how-do-i-boot-from-a-usb-thumbdrive/ and ruclips.net/video/3Qo4Jt-9Ltg/видео.html
Thank you, sir. Most useful.@@askleonotenboom
How is this different from windows installation drive?
I have the same question. Why use the recovery drive facility? Why not completely re-install Windows from scratch?
What must be the storage capacity of the recovery drive? Your example here uses a 16 GB drive. Will this size be enough for everybody?
Yes. For current versions of Windows anyway. :-)
@@askleonotenboom I was just told by Win Laptop it has to be 32GB. Perhaps I shouldn't have clicked "include system files"?
And for those whose computers will not boot from a USB drive??? Does this work straight on to a CD drive???
Yes