Windows 10: Create Win11 Recovery disk fails and corrupts USB

I bought a 5-pack of 64 gig USB thumb drives. Using the "Create and Format disk" tool I created two 30 gig partitions thinking I'd make one a Win 11 recovery and the other a Acronis recovery that's the backup tool I use.On my Win 10 machine it worked well. On my Win 11 machine it failed and corrupted the drive. Using the same tool I can see the drive but no longer is it two volumes, it's one big volume and, it's unusable. Clicking "Create Simple Volume" does nothing. I can see the menu item but nothing happens. Same with Properties. BTW, thinking this was a fluke, I did it a second t

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how to create a start-up disk for windows 10 pro

Hi,

To help you create a recovery drive, we suggest that you try to follow the steps found in the article below:

• Create a recovery drive

We would also need to ask you if you are trying to create a bootable USB disk for Windows 10.

Let us know so that we can further help.

 

Fail to create USB recovery

Hi Timothy,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community Forums. We are glad to help you.

Unable to Create Recovery USB Drive:

If you have imaged your drive, there is a chance the System Reserved partition is not in the same place that your Windows installation thought it was, and attempts to create a recovery drive will fail with the following error:

"We can’t create a recovery drive on this PC"

"Some required files are missing. To troubleshoot problems when your PC can’t start, use your Windows installation disc or media."

When this happens, you can fix this problem by telling the program that creates the recovery drive where the recovery environment is located by entering the following commands into a command prompt:

• 
  Right click on Start icon and select “Command Prompt (Admin)”
  
• 
  reagentc /disable
  
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  result “REAGENTC.EXE: Windows RE is already disabled.”
  
• 
  reagentc /setreimage /path L:
  \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE
  

This assumes your 450mb System Reserved partition is partition1. In my case, it was partition3. Keep trying partition1, partition2, partition3, etc. Until the command is successful.

You can also go into disk management by right-clicking the Windows 10 Start icon and click on Disk Management. Then look which partition is the 450mb System Reserved one for disk0. For me (which was a result of a Windows
7 upgrade), it was the 3rd partition. For a fresh installation it is probably the first partition and may be 500mb.

Then try again to create your recovery drive and check if it helps.

Hope this information helps. Feel free to get back to us for further queries. We will be happy to assist you.



Regards,

Jenith

 

windows 10 recovery usb disk drive

hi . all

i was create usb recovery disk drive with windows 10 update 1803 ,

i want to know steps to recover system using usb disk drive , to this update vision .

please , in step like that

1- put usb recovery disk drive on computer usb

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thanks , regards,