Windows 10: Can't create a recovery drive.

Discus and support Can't create a recovery drive. in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; I had two machines, both refused to make a recovery drive with the System files box checked. I ran SFC on one and it showed the opencl.dll (Nvidia)... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by cyclonic, Jul 28, 2016.

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  1. CYCLONIC
    cyclonic Win User

    Can't create a recovery drive.


    There was 2 recovery partitions on my c drive. Clean install reduced it back to one recovery partition. After that, the recovery system was able to create a recovery drive, including the System files.
     
    cyclonic, Aug 2, 2016
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  2. KARLFOLLMAN
    KarlFollman Win User

    Sounds crazy, but I could not get past the "a problem occurred while creating the recovery drive" when also selecting the checkbox "backup system files to the recovery drive." So I did it in two steps to my USB: First without the checkbox and immediately again (without exiting the recovery program), I then selected the checkbox. All seems well.
     
    KarlFollman, Oct 7, 2016
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  3. TANNERCHARTIER
    TannerChartier Win User
    I registered just to respond to this. I was having the same issues as others in this thread on a brand new ThinkPad T570, fresh out of the box.

    I tried what KarlFollman did, and ran it in two steps WITHOUT EXITING THE PROGRAM. Not sure if this matters though.

    When you get to the end of the recovery drive wizard the first go around, don't click finish. i used alt + b to get back to the first page and went again from there.

    Hopefully this helps someone out there...
     
    TannerChartier, Jul 6, 2017
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  4. NGC818
    ngc818 Win User

    Can't create a recovery drive.

    This two step (Alt+b) worked for me also, simple.

    thanks guys!.
     
    ngc818, Apr 4, 2018
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  5. EQNTOTT
    eqntott Win User
    KarlFollman and TannerChartier: Thank you. This two-step strategy worked for my UBS drive.
     
    eqntott, Apr 11, 2018
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