Windows 10: Use DELL Recovery USB or WindowsRecovery USB for a Clean Install

Good morning all, I'm doing a full CLEAN lnstall, I have my Windows OS Recovery USB Prepped' and all the Original Drivers Backed up to my ExHDD' In trying to find out is if I should Use the DELL recovery USB or the Windows recovery USB? its all about installing; replacing the drivers, DELL OR WINDOWS - M/Soft packages, any or most wll have to be sorted inorder - dowloaded - saved to the EX HDD,
Installed in order l assume via DEVICE/Manager' as update driver delete driver search for driver in, ExHDD OLD drivers backed-up OR ExHDD DELL NEW drivers?
Hoping that I can move around enough with the Driver supplied ln the Recovery OS drivers to do all this
what can i expect? Assumiming the DELL Recovery would install all the latest driver's for the DELL Inspiron 3670 (2019) during BOOT-UP?There is a BIOS and

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Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

Windows 10 recovery USB - which size???

Not even that. What creating a recovery drive does (if you select 'include system files') is to construct the files required to clean install Windows. If this is made on an OEM install these file will include the OEM custom apps and drivers - effectively a 'factory reset' drive. It is extracting an install image from your existing system files that takes the time.

The steps in making a recovery drive are shown in this tutorial...

Create Recovery Drive in Windows 10 | Tutorials

• first you choose whether or not to include system files (step 5 in tutorial)
• next the recovery drive files are constructed (this can take a long time if you include system files)
• only after that is complete will you be asked which usb to use (step 6 in tutorial). At this point you will be told how large a usb you need.

Without system files 512 Mb is sufficient. Including system files it will be just over 4GB.

At which step did you get the error? If you were not asked which usb to use then it was the construction of the system files that failed, nothing to do with what usb you had.

 

USB Recovery

Hi Janie,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

Please reply to the following questions to get a better understanding on the issue:

• Are you getting any error message?
  
• How are you creating the recovery USB?
  

However, you can follow the steps from Create a recovery drive
to create a recovery drive.

Hope it helps.

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community – Moderator