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    Can't create a recovery drive in Windows 11.


    Hi, I spent the weekend trying to create updated recovery drives for 2 Win 11 laptops and 2 Dell 8930 PC's, the Dells were originally Windows 10 from Jan 2021 but were updated to WIndows 11 around Jan 2022. I had created recovery drives for both Dell PCs nearly 3 years go after the update to Windows 11 without any problems.All the recovery drive creations were successfull this time, except one of the Dell 8930 lets call it PC2. At the finish of creating the drive I got a message saying recovery drive couldn't be created, sorry I forgot the exact words. Both Dell PCs have SSDs for the the C:

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    DavidK UK, Nov 25, 2024
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