Windows 10: Cannot create Windows 11 Recovery Drive on 64GB SanDisk USB. Creation dialog box says must...

Cannot create Windows 11 Recovery Drive on 64GB SanDisk USB. Creation dialog box says must be able to hold 32GB.

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Create a recovery drive formatting 64GB USB drive as 32GB

I have a 64GB USB drive formatted as NTFS but when I try to use it to create a recovery drive, it is reformatted as a 32GB Fat32 drive. I want to use the recovery drive to store the data currently on the hidden recovery partition but the completed recovery
drive only has about 8GB of data on it which is no where near the size of the recovery partition.

Is there a way to make the recovery drive creator use the full capacity of the USB drive?

 

Error Creating a recovery drive for Windows 10

When I try to create a Recovery Drive on Windows 10, I get the following:

We can't create the recovery drive

A problem occurred while creating the recovery drive.

The only option is Finish, no option to retry, no further info.

I am using a 64GB SanDisk USB flash stick, which was formatted to only use 32GB of the drive by the Recovery Drive app.

Can anyone help with this problem?

 

Cannot create recovery drive or bootable usb using media creation tool

Hi Stuart,

To assist you better with your concern, are you getting an error message upon creating a recovery drive, as well as creating a bootable USB drive? If yes, what's the error message?

In addition to that, have you tried the steps from the following articles:

• Create Windows 10 installation media.
• Create a recovery drive.

Regards.