Windows 10: How large should a backup thumb drive be?

Hello there,

I have an Acer Aspire E5-575 with pre-installed Windows 10 Home Single Language 1803.

I am facing issues with my laptop after updating to version 1909 and a solution to that problem is shifting back to the default OS version.

After consulting an authorized technician, I was advised to shift back to the original OS using Image backup.

My laptop will go through this and will turn back to what it was without any problems.

For future, if my laptop ever runs into such a problem, I want the original image backup in a thumb drive so I can do the things myself.

So to create this drive, what should be the size of the thumb drive?

And if you find a 'trustworthy' YouTube video that demonstrates how to perform recovery, please drop a link to that.

Thanks in advance!

:)

 

Transfer a file to a thumb drive

Hi Michael,

Connect the USB Thumb drive

Right click the file you want to transfer and click 'Send to' - flash drive (that drive should be bottom of he 'Send to' list . . .

 

Can a thumb drive be disabled by malware?

There are quite a few possibilities to what happened to your thumb drive:

1. It might be a simple issue where the partition got corrupted: In this case you can go to Computer Management > Disk Management> and check out what partition your thumb drive currently has. If it currently is in RAW format or is just unallocated, I suggest you unallocate the entire drive and make a new partition. It's possible that you can recover upto 99% of your files with a tool like EaseUS DataRecovery Wizard Pro.
   
2. The malware corrupted your thumb drive's firmware: The malware that your thumb drive may have encountered may be similar to something like BadUSB. It may or may not have modified your drive's firmware to transmit malware, but in any case your thumb drive's pretty dead, and there's not much you can do about it.
   

 

USB Drive as backup and recovery drive.

You should not use a large drive such as that for a recovery drive. A 16 GB USB thumb drive would be more appropriate. The 2 TB external would be better as a backup drive for your computer.

See how to create a recovery drive:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...