Windows 10: Recovery drive creation looks to be complete but won't transition to finish page

Everything seems to have gone well in creating a recovery drive on Windows 10 on a laptop that is about 10 days old. The green bar is full and it still says copying system. How long is this supposed to last? It has been 10 minutes. I looked and found it should snap to a different page that says "Finish" on it but that has not happened.

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Recovery drive creation failure.

Personally I do not regard "a problem occurred" to be a valid error message under
any circumstances. However, after some investigation, it looks like I may have a root cause to ask about.

Basically, the recovery drive creation always bombs when trying to prepare the USB stick (and I've tried half a dozen of differing shapes, sizes, makes, models and speeds -
so the stick itself is out of the running as cause)

The end result is always an empty USB stick with no partitions on it.

Attempting to create and format a partition in Storage Management always creates the partition and
always fails to format it. Subsequent formatting through explorer always succeeds (and is
always prompted for).

Attempting to create and format using MiniTool Partition Wizard always
succeeds in one pass.

Dropping to a command prompt and going step-by-step using Diskpart throws a "cannot find file specified" error when attempting to format, so my guess here is that both Recovery Drive Creation and Storage Management are using Diskpart under the skin and this
is where the pig's ear is.

The Event Viewer shows an Error of "cannot zero sectors on disk" when Recovery Drive Creation or Storage Management is used as described. The disk referenced is the stick.

The Event Viewer shows a series of Warnings of "An error was detected on device during a paging operation" when Diskpart format is attempted. The disk referenced is the stick, so what the heck's it doing trying to page to it?

Finally, the question: As I'm all out of ideas at this point, how the heck to I get this to work?

 

Windows Recovery Disk Creation does not see USB Jump Drive

Hi,

Please answer this question to assist you better.

Does your Flash drives are identified in Device manager?

I would suggest you to run the Hardware and devices troubleshooter
to diagnose the exact issue.

• 
  Press Windows + X keys on the keyboard and select Control Panel.
  
• 
  Type Troubleshooting in the search bar on the Control Panel.
  
• 
  Click on Hardware and sound under Troubleshoot computer problems.
  
• 
  Click on Hardware and devices under Devices.
  
• 
  Click on Advanced on the Hardware and devices dialog box and click on Run as administrator (Enter the credentials if required).
  
• 
  Click on Next and follow onscreen instruction complete the Hardware and devices troubleshooter.
  

If USB flash drive gets detected then follow the steps below and check if that helps.

Creating a recovery drive

A recovery drive can help you troubleshoot and fix problems with your PC, even if it won't start. To create one, all you need is a USB drive.

• From the taskbar, search for Create a recovery drive then select it. You might be asked to enter an admin password or confirm your choice.
• When the tool opens, make sure Back up system files to the recovery drive is selected, then select
  Next.
• Connect a USB drive to your PC, select it, then select Next > Create. A lot of files need to be copied to the recovery drive, so this might take a while.
• When it's finished, you might see a Delete the recovery partition from your PC link on the final screen. If you want to free up drive space on your PC, select the link, then select
  Delete. If not, select Finish.

Do let us know the status of the issue. Thank you.