Windows 10: Recovery Disk must be greater than 16 GB for some systems

The Windows 10 Recovery Disk Creation Tool asks for a 16 GB USB drive. After many failures with multiple ports and several 16 GB drives, I finally tried a 32 GB drive. Success on the first try. This is on a new Dell Inspiron 27 7000 All in one (7775). My other 3 Windows 10 systems are able to make Recovery Disks on a 16 GB drive. Microsoft needs to change the tool to ask for a disk that is big enough to work!




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Unable to use repair disk and system image recovery as it will not work

Hello,

Your question does not contain all the required information needed for us to help you. I suggest you to provide more details regarding the issue you’re facing.

Please provide us more information help you better:

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  What is the exact issue that you are facing?
  
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  Did you receive any error message or error code?
  
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  What is the error that you receive while performing system image recovery through repair disk?
  
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  What all troubleshooting steps have you done?
  

Reply with necessary information to help you better.

 

Recovery Disks

Hi Ron,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

In order to create a recovery disk, follow the steps below:

• Type “Recovery” in search box and press Enter.
• Select the option to create a recovery disc and follow the prompts to create a recovery disc.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to
write to us for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

Cannot create a recovery disk on my "Upgraded" W10 systems

Hi Jorg,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

I understand your concern about creating a recovery disk on Windows 10.

This issue might be due to corrupted or missing System files.

I suggest you to perform the below troubleshooting steps and check.

Run the SFC.

System File Checker is a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files.

Follow the below steps:

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  Right click on the Start button, click on
  Command Prompt (Admin).
  
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  Type “sfc /scannow” without the quotes and hit
  Enter.
  
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  After the scan, restart the computer and check for the issue.
  

Also refer to the below Microsoft article: Refresh is part of reset in Windows 10

And: Repair & recovery


Hope it helps. Kindly update the status of this issue, we will be happy to help you.