Windows 10: Recovery Drive

I have tried several times to create a system recovery drive on a USB.

Followed the instructions to the letter, and used two different brand, brand new USB's.

After initial start up it says I need a USB with at least 8 GB capacity, which these USB's have. But nothing happens, it just keeps asking for a USB after one has been inserted.

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Recovery Drive Fail : Create a recovery drive fails in windows 10

I've been experiencing the same issue creating a recovery USB. I initially created a recovery disc after purchase of my Acer laptop with Windows 10 and after upgrading to the Creator's update fall edition, I thought to create a new recovery drive. Now,
since I tried to use the same USB, I am left with no recovery drive at all since the USB was formatted in the process. I've tried going back to the previous version of Windows and using a restore point returning to before the Creator's update with no luck
creating a drive. The system wouldn't even restore to the restore point I had created, but instead deleted it. Although I am having no problems with Windows, I feel cheated that I can't create a recovery USB for future use. Is this Microsoft's way of making
me purchase recovery media?

 

Recovery Drive Fail : Create a recovery drive fails in windows 10

Big thanks to all of you guys,

I have been facing the same problem.

would like to add that I have tried two steps, which seem to have worked for me, and managed to create a USB recovery drive for my WIndows 10.

My Usb drive stick is a 16 GB one.

First Step, as mentioned by "1-Prop" (quote below), I too have mistakenly set the "hard drive sleep time to 0 minutes" in my "power options", so I simply set it to "never" (for both options, when on battery and when plugged in).

Second Step, I have opened the location on my C:\ drive where the executable for the Create recovery disk tool is located, and I have "right-clicked" on the executable file and selected "Run as Administrator". On my computer the path for the executable is:
"c:\Windows\System32\RecoveryDrive.exe".

Those two steps seem to work for me, and I managed to boot my laptop (in my case, I am on Dell Alienware 15 R2 laptop), I had to press F12 (on the boot screen) and then selected to boot from my USB stick.

I hope this would help someone else too.

Best wishes & Good luck.

~Sam~

 

Insert USB - then start program

 

Great, that works, thanks. Others reading this should also know the whole process took about 3 hours!! Also beware that any power management options will abort the process. e.g. my pc was set for screen off after 30 mins. So after that the recovery drive creation process aborted! - I do wish Windows would give some clues about this process.

Q

 

You could have accomplished much the same, and in a LOT less time, if you had used the free version of Macrium Reflect to do an image backup to USB stick. I regularly do that, and 10 minutes is the LONGEST it has ever taken. When I recently changed to using an SSD, the backup took only a couple of minutes, and restores are just as fast!

 

Hi,

Absolutely. Windows should notice something's running and suspend the time out for power savings.

A big +1 for Macrium Reflect. While blazingly fast on powerful pcs it will of course be slower on lesser hardware and a bunch of other factors. Still, a very impressive piece of software indeed.

Hats off to Kyhi the magician too. *Biggrin

Cheers, *Wink