Windows 10: Is 8 hours to create a recovery USB stick normal?

I set Windows (version 1909) to work creating recovery media on a USB stick. After 5½ hours it is only ⅔ of the way through, so it will probably have taken 8 hours from start to finish. Is this normal? And why does it need to take such an extraordinarily long time?

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Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

create recovery drive

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in response.

I suggest you to refer the below support article and check.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive

(Steps for 8.1 also applicable for Windows 10)

Let us know if this helps.

 

Cant create Recovery USB

Hi Cole,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to refer to the thread answered by Mr. Andre Da Costa and check if it helps.

How to create a recovery image/partition in Windows 10



You may also refer to the article “Create a USB recovery drive” and follow the steps:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive



Hope these information helps, please get back to us for future support, we’ll be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.